Anyone who's there past series A/B of a upward trajectory company is basically deadweight.
Having worked in the past at a tech unicorn, I'll say that the quality of talent that came in later was atrocious. They came from big tech and other impressive places, but they were so rigid and inflexible to work with.. Everything needed "process" or had to be so clear (like following Lego build instructions) otherwise they couldn't operate. I don't wish to bring up a cringe military analogy, but I do believe us early folks had a operator mindset where we understood the mission end goal and executed on it. These guys need calendars, notes, a million SaaS tools, to just ship a new feature that adds a button that makes an API call.
I'm talking software "ENGINEERS" (key word) who spent more time making BS documents that nobody read or found much value in (literally never viewed by anyone else). The worst part were the big tech managers who came in later and just made the place a hellhole to work where nothing got done anymore.
I honestly believe that the future success of the company was only possible due to 90% of the work being done by the 10% who were there early. These later stage employees were just show we were growing on paper.
Honestly that experience has ruined working at companies for me. I just can't do it anymore, especially with people like that who are just bad, full stop period fin. And it sucks to just collect a check because its too easy.
Anyone who's there past series A/B of a upward trajectory company is basically deadweight.
Having worked in the past at a tech unicorn, I'll say that the quality of talent that came in later was atrocious. They came from big tech and other impressive places, but they were so rigid and inflexible to work with.. Everything needed "process" or had to be so clear (like following Lego build instructions) otherwise they couldn't operate. I don't wish to bring up a cringe military analogy, but I do believe us early folks had a operator mindset where we understood the mission end goal and executed on it. These guys need calendars, notes, a million SaaS tools, to just ship a new feature that adds a button that makes an API call.
I'm talking software "ENGINEERS" (key word) who spent more time making BS documents that nobody read or found much value in (literally never viewed by anyone else). The worst part were the big tech managers who came in later and just made the place a hellhole to work where nothing got done anymore.
I honestly believe that the future success of the company was only possible due to 90% of the work being done by the 10% who were there early. These later stage employees were just show we were growing on paper.
Honestly that experience has ruined working at companies for me. I just can't do it anymore, especially with people like that who are just bad, full stop period fin. And it sucks to just collect a check because its too easy.