| You really think that it’s some great conspiracy? Any random entry level developer working at any of the big 5 companies will get an offer in the low to mid six figures at least. Are you that unaware of compensation at any of the top tech companies? How much do you think they are making? You don’t need “10-20 million” to live a decent middle class lifestyle in the US. > For a startup it's even less guaranteed, but you will certainly get much more than that ($10s of millions at least), faster (5-10 years) if you have a reasonably successful exit Yes all you have to do is choose the one startup out of 10 that don’t outright fail and then choose the subset of those that have an outsized exit. > At big corps you barely do anything for the first two years you get hired, but at startups you are working on something mission critical from the start Have you ever worked at any large tech company? I literally just went to a customer’s site with the former intern I spoke about and they are the only hands on keyboard consultant (I work in the cloud consulting department at $BigTech) of a six figure contract. I was there in an advisory role. All of the new grads go through a six month training program and immediately get put on projects. In my department they get to learn about working with “cloud technologies” from people who are inarguably the best in the business. I’m sure people at other big tech companies also learn a lot more about working at scale than you can learn at a tiny company. Besides you are suffering from severe survivorship bias if you think more than an insignificant percentage of people working at a startup ever leave with any significant amount of money let alone “millions”. |