Stereotypically entertaining.
Living in the bay area and working for a startup it's easy to relate and it's funny, i'll five the author that.
After the second paragraph it starts getting pretty old though...
Fuck You Startup World
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#32Hoping this is the vanguard for a new rebellion against toxic SV-style startup culture, and the nitwits that propagate it
Toxic SV culture is ripe for parody, but words won't stop it. What will stop it is when the money stops flowing so easily and the wider economy improves so that it's no longer the place to be for the greedy. Not sure I see both those things happening any time soon, in the meantime Tech is sadly the new Finance.
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#33I don't think you need to censor titles on Hacker News.
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#34He either completely misses the point, or completely gets it.
Every single one of these "benefits" are very well thought out and calculated shams meant to deceive and manipulate impressionable kids into working insane hours for less than a realistic living wage. That's the whole point.
It's just like that circus in the Pinocchio movie.
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#35fuck your anger. :)
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#36> Fuck your crazy work hours.
Yeah!
> Fuck you drinking culture too.
Yeah!
> Fuck your open space floor plans
Yeah!
> Fuck the transparency trend, the post mortem and the 5 whys.
Yea---wait, what? Those other things are reasonable complaints, but wondering why things go wrong and trying to stop them from going wrong for the same reason tomorrow is, you know, good.
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#37Meh. I could write this same post about the corporate world stereotypes, but that would be dumb. This person has a problem with healthy people, fat people, people who have an interest in their field, people who work hard and overachieve, just an absurd breadth of random adjectives and interests that make people unique.
It just seems like they wish everyone was the same so they wouldn't be compared to the tons of people who've found success in the 'startup world'.
2/10, barely entertaining.
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#39This article explains well why I avoid startups. I've considered joining some, but always get turned off by the interview phase. The ones that bug me the most...
> Fuck your crazy work hours
In my opinion, if you're working crazy hours, you've already failed, likely due to poor management of the project. The only exception I see is if you don't really have a life outside work and are working on a project that you're really passionate about, but even then it should be a temporary thing.
> Fuck your open space floor plans, You really think Zucks builds a Facebook’s 2017 roadmap while a nerf war is ranging outside
I want to get work done and move on with life, not play silly office games. Open space floor plans kill my focus.
> Fuck you startups with your extravagant parties and crazy off-site events that cost way too much money
I've never understood this. I want to work for your company. If I want to go on vacation, I'll do it with my family, not my coworkers. I have no desire to be best friends with all my coworkers.
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#40> Fuck your crazy work hours. Yeah! > Fuck you drinking culture too. Yeah! > Fuck your open space floor plans Yeah! > Fuck the transparency trend, the post mortem and the 5 whys. Yea---wait, what? Those other things are reasonable complaints, but wondering why things go wrong and trying to stop them from going wrong for the same reason tomorrow is, you know, good.
Shh, they're on a roll. :)