Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
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#2As someone who bounced between my own startups and working for others where a company put me on a hard project and really challenged me I could excel. If they wanted just another cog in a sea of cogs it didn't go so well. I can tell you having your own startup does spoil you. You never bring the same passion writing code for an employer once you've done it for your own ideas.
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Re: Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
#4Why would anyone think that the average entrepreneur or even early startup person would be able to seamlessly transition back and forth between the entrepreneurial and big corporate worlds, at least at the lower levels relevant here. It's a different mindset and skillset. And it works both ways, you'd expect startups to be biased against salarymen.
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#6Perhaps the entrepreneurial octopus interprets corporate recruitment channels as damage and routes around the problem...
Re: Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
#7I’m not a recruiter, but I am in “Big Tech”, and dealing with founders, or even just people who have only worked at startups, is frustrating. They tend to have underdeveloped skills in teamwork and listening to authority. Honestly, I just want likable people who will execute on my ideas (or the ideas I’m simply passing on from higher management), or with light discussion, even if the execution isn’t perfect. I feel like a lot of corporate work is like this.
Re: Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
#8I've had recruiters from mid-sized, but rapidly growing, tech companies tell me to my face that they don't accept "entrepreneurial" applicants. This meant anybody who has worked at smaller startups or done consulting, contracting, or freelancing.
Re: Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
#9I’m not a recruiter, but I am in “Big Tech”, and dealing with founders, or even just people who have only worked at startups, is frustrating. They tend to have underdeveloped skills in teamwork and listening to authority. Honestly, I just want likable people who will execute on my ideas (or the ideas I’m simply passing on from higher management), or with light discussion, even if the execution isn’t perfect. I feel l…
Without noticing you might have pointed out one of the reasons founder type people are founder type people.
Blindly follow orders isnt really on most startup folks’ list of things to do.
Re: Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
#10As someone who bounced between my own startups and working for others where a company put me on a hard project and really challenged me I could excel. If they wanted just another cog in a sea of cogs it didn't go so well. I can tell you having your own startup does spoil you. You never bring the same passion writing code for an employer once you've done it for your own ideas.
Have also done both. I find it easier and perform better when the corporate project is entrepreneurial —- urgency or novelty means we have to do things differently than just executing the well-honed and predictable processes to produce version 47 of something.
But corporate experience has made me a better entrepreneur (“hey, maybe we should have some process”). It requires a shift in thinking, but IMO that’s a good thing.