I would guess that many startups in Silicon Valley making big promising about changing the world and then when they employers spend a year at the company, they see that there’s little meaning in the work they are doing.
I’ve worked for 4-6 silicon valley startups now (depending on how we count it), and this has generally not been my experience. For me and most of the people I’ve worked with, staying in one job for a long time just seems weird. Moving around frequently is how you grow fastest and keep things interesting; people in startups see frequent job-hopping as normal, and it’s the rest of the world that’s strange.
That said, I have heard occasional stories about scammy startups who promise lots of equity and then suck. My impression is that they generally lure in people who haven’t been in silicon valley before; people with skills, who’ve done this for a little while, generally won’t even consider those kinds of offers.
I’ve worked for 4-6 silicon valley startups now (depending on how we count it), and this has generally not been my experience. For me and most of the people I’ve worked with, staying in one job for a long time just seems weird. Moving around frequently is how you grow fastest and keep things interesting; people in startups see frequent job-hopping as normal, and it’s the rest of the world that’s strange.
That said, I have heard occasional stories about scammy startups who promise lots of equity and then suck. My impression is that they generally lure in people who haven’t been in silicon valley before; people with skills, who’ve done this for a little while, generally won’t even consider those kinds of offers.