Pros: young company and young, “fun” people, easy to get leadership role exposure on small projects, variety of tasks and projects so possibility to try out different tech stacks etc, “smaller” projects thus possibility to see and build products end to end.
Pros: young company and young, “fun” people, easy to get leadership role exposure on small projects, variety of tasks and projects so possibility to try out different tech stacks etc, “smaller” projects thus possibility to see and build products end to end.
Cons: many clients weren’t exactly “high performance organisations”, so you could feel that the environment would slow you down or you wouldn’t have many opportunities for learning, projects are usually not as technical and large scale as in big techs (you don’t get exposed to a similar level of complexity), sometimes you also have to take on non-technical type of work (in case the clients problem is more about project management etc than actually about executing on a technical roadmap).
Thanks Dan!
My consulting experience was alright.
Pros: young company and young, “fun” people, easy to get leadership role exposure on small projects, variety of tasks and projects so possibility to try out different tech stacks etc, “smaller” projects thus possibility to see and build products end to end.
Cons: many clients weren’t exactly “high performance organisations”, so you could feel that the environment would slow you down or you wouldn’t have many opportunities for learning, projects are usually not as technical and large scale as in big techs (you don’t get exposed to a similar level of complexity), sometimes you also have to take on non-technical type of work (in case the clients problem is more about project management etc than actually about executing on a technical roadmap).