Comment by dilyevsky
5 years ago
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)
5 years ago
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.
Immeditely added that to my favorite commebts. Short, crsip and it contains so much truth!
That is so nicely put. Worthy of Ambrose Bierce himself, I reckon.
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
Of course not.
You'd need more like 300+ to have a manager-of-managers who isn't a director or VPE.