There are startups with over 50 engineers you know ;) At sr manager role you are for sure not technical though even if you did get asked coding/design questions in interview loops (there are exceptions)
Obviously it’s pretty tricky to define but I’d say anything that doesn’t have an already established or rapidly growing customer base/revenue is a startup. If you can shutdown all r&d and it’s still going to be viable business for a while then it’s not a startup
A company with over 50 engineers that wants to be seen as a startup is a red flag for me. I usually stop reading their job postings as soon as I can detect this.
There are startups with over 50 engineers you know ;) At sr manager role you are for sure not technical though even if you did get asked coding/design questions in interview loops (there are exceptions)
At what point does an organization stop being a "startup" and become a "private company"?
When its inertia has reached a point where it can continue to succeed not because of its actions, but in spite of them.
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Obviously it’s pretty tricky to define but I’d say anything that doesn’t have an already established or rapidly growing customer base/revenue is a startup. If you can shutdown all r&d and it’s still going to be viable business for a while then it’s not a startup
When it stops taking VC money?
when you become consistently profitable and sel-sufficient.
I disagree. If you have 50 people, you’re just a business
A company with over 50 engineers that wants to be seen as a startup is a red flag for me. I usually stop reading their job postings as soon as I can detect this.
Is every job posting you look at is for a company that runs a version of lamp stack and 90% of workforce is sales? Then, sure
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You'd need more like 300+ to have a manager-of-managers who isn't a director or VPE.