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Startup Job Hunt Tips: Beware Startup Lies and Egos
This is a post in the ongoing series Startup Job Hunt Tips. This is only my own perspective.
When you're interviewing, lots of startups will overrepresent themselves. They will, purposely or not, fool you. Not all of them will do this. Plenty will be exceptions and will be perfectly truthful. But, so many startups overrepresent themselves that I feel it worth the warning to anybody looking to switch into the startup world.
The tech startup war story of the year
Due to my interest in clojure and clojurescript, I stumbled across Colin Steele, a developer and CTO who rewrote his product in clojure. What I want to share has less to do with clojure and more to do with startups and just being an overall bad ass. Colin wrote these two posts, which are -- BY FAR -- my favorite startup war stories of the year.
Read the posts here and here.
How to succeed as a discriminated minority
Particular minority groups complain way more than others online. This is a post written for people who are frustrated about being a discriminated minority and tweet or post statuses about how unfair and evil their worlds are. No, this post is NOT a rant post about these complaints. This is real, constructive input from somebody who grew up a discriminated minority and learned a few tricks along the way.
Startup Job Hunt Tips: Don't be infatuated with the startup's product
This is a post in the ongoing series Startup Job Hunt Tips. This is only my own perspective.
Let me tell you the story of when I interviewed at a startup whose product I loved.
This occurred in 2012, right after I finished Hacker School. I knew a co-founder at a very small startup. They made a social consumer product, in an industry which I found very exciting at the time. Since I was still a beginner programmer, I wasn't confident about finding a job as a developer yet. But I loved their product and got along very well with the co-founder. The co-founder wanted to introduce me to his CTO for an interview.
I was pumped for this interview. After working in management consulting and investment banking, I finally had a chance to work on a product in an industry which I thought was really awesome. I just had to nail the interview with the CTO!
Thing was, I was infatuated with their product. I extended that infatuation toward the startup itself and the team, including their CTO. This was a mistake.
Startup Job Hunt Tips: Two different strategies for two different types of startups
This is a post in the ongoing series Startup Job Hunt Tips. This is only my own perspective.
There are tech companies which pretend to be startups, and companies that are ACTUALLY startups. I'll call them pretend startups and actual startups.
Here's the difference between pretend startups and actual startups.
Startup Job Hunt Tips: Present yourself as a solution, not a smart person
This is a post in the ongoing series Startup Job Hunt Tips. This is only my own perspective.
The following type of interview does not go well:
"I'm a really smart person. These reasons are why I'm so smart. So, you should hire me."
Many people, particularly from business, are in the habit of interviewing like this. It probably works to get you entry-level finance and management consulting jobs. But if you want to leave those jobs into startups, you need a different presentation.
Introducing "Startup Job Hunt Tips"
Between 2010 and 2013, I did somewhere between 150 and 200 interviews for various industries and firm sizes. This included typical on-campus recruiting at target universities, a career switch from business to software development, and disorganized recruiting with startups. I've learned a LOT about finding jobs, interviewing, and changing careers as an unproven 20-something.
Some friends and others tend to solicit advice from me about getting jobs at startups, and the advice and anecdotes turn out to be the same. This series of short posts, aptly named Startup Job Hunt Tips, is a collection of my most meaningful and frequently shared observations, experiences, and advice.
My stories are most relevant to currently working professionals looking to make a career change into startups. This advice is probably not entirely relevant for current college students. But hopefully, others will find my material interesting too. Lastly, keep in mind that this is only my perspective. There's plenty of room for disagreement.
If you have any questions or would like to see more content, please hit me on twitter.
Contents of Startup Job Hunt Tips:
Present yourself as a solution, not a smart person
Why does everybody want to be a product manager? (coming soon)
Whether or not to learn to code (coming soon)
Two different strategies for two different types of startups
Whether or not to apply to Hacker School (coming soon)
Are you ready to make tradeoffs for startups? (coming soon)
Beware startup lies and egos
How to assess a startup job (coming soon)
The importance of having an opinion (coming soon)
Don't be infatuated with a startup's product
How to make the interview go both ways (coming soon)
A common way to discourage startups from hiring you (coming soon)
Hypocrisy in Software Development
-- Satire, but based on true events.
Manager: How much longer will it take for you to finish this feature?
Code Monkey: I'm guessing another two weeks.
Manager: We need this feature asap. If we add another developer, can we finish in one week?
Code Monkey: Uh, probably not, because of domain expertise and maybe minimizing technical debt... there's a lot of nuance which adds to the complexity, but none of it is easily divisible work.
Manager: Okay, but this is critical. What if we add two more developers instead of one more? Maybe then we can ship in three or four days instead?
-- Later in the day...
Code Monkey: By the way, Manager, congratulations on your pregnancy! When is your baby due?
Manager: Thank you, Code Monkey! My baby's coming in about six months!
Code Monkey: Awesome! Hehe, you ever wonder if nine women can work together to deliver a baby in a month??
Manager: Haha, ahh Code Monkey, I don't think it quite works that way...
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Lessons learned while returning from injury
Last January, I hurt my knee. It never felt like a big injury. My initial reaction was to take it easy for a week or two before going back to my normal active life. But it never got better.
Month by month, my knee pain persisted. I did physical therapy with a trusted therapist, and it still never healed. I did a ton of rehab exercises found online. None of it worked.
Today, an unbelievable ten months after my injury, I'm proud and relieved to have attended my first bboy practice since April and did my first normal footwork since January. My knee felt great before the practice, feels good now after the practice, but was a little sore during the practice. I need to rest a little more before practicing again. But, I'm fully certain I will recover very soon from my terribly persistent knee pain.
I learned a lot from this experience, but here are my main two takeaways:
If you're about this art form, you should know that this (and many other dance forms especially from the African diaspora) is a hidden language. We learn through exchange (dialogical approach Storm calls it). Whether by battling or sharing, you learn by observation (or via explicit instruction i.e. mentors or workshops) just as you would any language. You are then meant to express your voice through the language (develop your own style) whilst maintaining the traditions (otherwise known as foundation). Some people are tourists and don't understand the culture and just gain a superficial view of what we do. Those are the ones that don't last or think it's just about 'big' moves or difficulty or train with a gym mentality which is the same as learning and using a language to speak to themselves. It's not what u say but how u say it.
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Again in the last 30 years programs have got hundreds to thousands of times larger (in terms of code lines) but programming languages haven't got that much better and our brains have not gotten any smarter. So the gap between what we can build and what we can understand is growing rapidly.
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