[Bahamut]

Ouch - I try to encourage my QA people to write code if they find something wrong and they feel it's easy to fix, and I am at a startup in downtown Palo Alto.

I successfully fought management to get them to allow time for the other senior engineers to mentor the junior developers, and for all to explore new technologies after a massive burnout session of product development to meet an overly aggressive release deadline - I threatened to quit if big changes weren't made, and I was by far their most productive frontend engineer.

Not all startups are equal - just as it can be difficult to find the career that interests you, it can be just as difficult to find the company you would like to work at.