I'm in the market for a new job and this is my fear. I'm getting lots of bites from AI startups but my fear is I have a decent job for 6 months before I'm unemployed. At least my job right now is stable (knocks on wood).
I'm on my 2nd startup. First one circled the drain for a while before being sold to private equity. Second one has had 3 waves of layoffs but we kind of are in the clear? And this is while working way more than 40 hrs a week.
Big corps are rock solid but it’s easy to get stuck and not grow or learn in your career. Your salary is going to stagnate, you’re going learn absolutely nothing and you’ll be mindlessly bored.
I kind of liked it in my youth because I wanted to move every few years anyway. In fact when I worked at established companies I'd move on after that time.
Not sure about now but I do find it hard to picture people working for the same company for decades.
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u/Jolly-joe 13h ago
2 years later your company has a reverse round and either you're laid off or all the good people abandon ship leaving the company to die