Programmers getting their first jobs after school don't do nearly enough research about where would be best to work. Largely, I think, because they're in denial about the inconvenient truth that research is necessary.
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New grads would like to believe that picking an employer is like picking a college, where all the schools at a given level of "elite" are roughly interchangeable. But employers vary a lot more than colleges. Choosing an employer is a much harder problem.
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The laziness of new grads is hugely to the advantage of companies like Google, which appears to be the MIT of employers. But there's no such thing. What you want to find is the company that is now what Google was in 1999.
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Figuring out which company is the next Google is a hard problem. There's a whole class of people, known as investors, whose full time job it is. But it's not an insoluble problem. And if you're young and good at programming, you have insights no investors have.
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And which one is that? You see a lot of them at YC.
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I have some insights about this, but I can't publicly pick favorites.
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If a new grad is risk-averse, going to Google may make more sense than looking for the modern version of Google 1999.
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I fixed this 7 months after school and reading your essay. It’s been 4 years since; never been happier. I actually ended up building a commercial product based on research in school. I never imagined that could happen, too. Just needed a little explicit effort.
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If you throw a dart in the dark and wish for the best, sure. But taking intelligent risks greatly mitigates this. At least you can point to your original rationale and learn from it regardless of a good or bad outcome
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Fair enough, but you should also be using your own evaluation of the market, team, and product, not just relying on what you're told.
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You mean a company that tries to get itself sold to any other big company, as long as they pay enough? Its not exactly a company with a backbone I feel.
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