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Colin
@colin
Hot take (& a bit biased) but I think it's extremely valuable to work at FANG or another big co early in your career. Lets you establish a great foundation (mature infra & coding practices), lots of smart minds you can learn from, high salaries, etc. Learning & growth gets capped so only valuable at the start tho.
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@mc10
Undoubtedly so. You can learn so much and, with a bit of luck, you can build a network that is going to be very valuable for life.
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Ben
@benersing
I agree
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@pushix
When I started my career, I thought startups were the only way. Later, Pinterest acquired a startup I was working for and I learned things: 1. they do have bloat 2. but they have insane talent (really didn't think this was true) 3. they teach you best practices 4. actually work with real scale ~4 years seems enough
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Sterling
@sterling
yep - teaches you good work habits that you will take with you the rest of your life
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Rohit Kulshreshtha
@rohit
Can strongly relate.
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@akiff
I worked at Dropbox as my first job and definitely learned a lot and gained a ton of skills and network I feel glad for Then moved to a small company and saw it grow and felt like I could take my learnings there and it made it easier for me to get that job
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Ben Goldberg
@bg
as a former amazon employee i strongly disagree
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@andrewcjoe
Great if you get the opportunity, but what are the alternatives for those less lucky?
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@keepingitneil
100% - tons of wisdom baked into everything. Y-intercept from big co, slope from moonlighting fun projects or smaller startups
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@clayman
100% agreed and it’s a route I’m recommending to a lot of new grads who can’t find roles in web3 right now (especially those that want to go down the product management route). An APM rotation at a FAANG or working at a Citi/Citadel/Bloomberg is basically a cheat code for getting into web3 in 1-2 years
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@niftynei
+1, working at etsy def 10x’d my understanding of what great product engineering is
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