| Stories like this make me glad my company has yet to accept VC money. We're a five-person legal tech startup and the work environment is far and away the best I've ever experienced. Granted, I've only been a developer in total for four or five years now (including almost three here), but of all the jobs I've had it's the best. My CTO/supervisor is amazing: smart, funny, likable and with a management style that works for me amazingly well. Mostly hands off, but fully available for deep dives on technical subjects when necessary. At this point I've earned enough trust to be able to just get shit done with minimal oversight, though we do check in daily at least, and keep each other apprised of what we're up to, or interesting things we've come across. The lack of external forcing agents is probably a win for us at this point. Obviously there's benefits to having a pile of money to burn: we'd probably hire several more developers and really work to hone our product. But for a team with two full-time developers and a really great designer, not to mention extremely smart and talented leadership and sales teams, we're doing great, and ship features at a pace that seems to put to shame similar companies with much larger teams and far more money. Honestly, I have no idea what they're doing with their time. Still working on that product-market fit though... Anyway, tl;dr I feel like I hit the jackpot here. |