7 reasons not to join a startup and 1 reason to

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In 2018, I wrote Career advice for recent Computer Science graduates about joining a big company instead of a startup after college.

In 2018, I wrote Career advice for recent Computer Science graduates about joining a big company instead of a startup after college. In 2019, when I left NVIDIA, I wrote Lessons learned after my first full-time job about leaving a big company for a startup. Now that I’ve left my first full-time job at a startup, I want to revisit the topic. This is based on some personal experience, but most come from friends’ experiences, including the intensive note on startups from a friend who had worked at 3 startups before and who would like to remain anonymous. I hope that it’ll give some pointers to th

7 reasons not to join a startup and 1 reason to

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