[onemiketwelve]

I disagree, my very first job was at a startup in lieu of a big company. I think I was very naive at the time and thought I knew how things worked coming out of business school. I learned tons of what not to do and saw what I thought were pretty big mistakes like not having tests, not talking to customers and actively saying no to user requests. And despite all this, the company was still afloat and was still growing.

It gave me a lot of hope tbh that you can make several mistakes and still have a decent shot.

And I learned tons of what to do correctly. I saw what "rockstar" engineers were actually. I drank from a firehose from a tech standpoint.