Big tears. Start ups are extremely high risk. If that’s not your cup of tea then go work for a mega Corp with better medical and retirement benefits.
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Sick of these startup executives, painting a rosy picture for employees
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Re: Sick of these startup executives, painting a rosy picture for employees
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Continuous integration and testing practices? We think those things are great, but we’ve been too busy to get to that, because we’re a startup ...”
It's kind of like trying to save time on a marathon by not stopping to tie your shoelaces. I mean it takes maybe a day or two at most to set up a CI/CD pipeline with Github actions or something similar. It takes maybe a day to set up test runners, and you can just sprinkle in small tests as you go. There are plenty of templates you can find depending on your language/platform that do most of this out of the box. You…
A startup doesn’t have a known course with a finish line and competing forces defined by rules.
A startup is running from a grizzly bear and tying your shoe laces is an engineering decision. There are important tradeoffs and potential bad outcomes either way.
Re: Sick of these startup executives, painting a rosy picture for employees
#43I'm CTO at a startup and I've made a 180 on this in the last year. I used to paint a rosey picture. Now I feel it's my duty to give employees full disclosure on what they can expect: cash burn, runway, technical debt, what we likely can and can not spend time on, that potential stock options should not influence the decision making, because the future is impossible to predict and it's very likely to be worth nothing.…
First, thank you. Second, as I read “... because the future is impossible to predict and it’s very likely to be worth nothing”, I thought, “Hmmm, that’s the arc of life itself, when we cut through all the delusions.”
It is, but it's good to remember that YOLO cuts two ways ;)