Startups: the best place for freshers to work, here's why?

This article is originally taken from linked in by sandeep singh.

Startups: the best place for freshers to work

Joining an early stage startup can be beneficial to your career if you are independent and motivated. You will have plenty of opportunities to wear a lot of hats, take on more responsibility, and learn more than you would have at a larger company.

• Professional Growth: 

Working at a startup is a great place to build upon your existing skill sets, gain experiences in many functional areas, and take on a ton of responsibility. As the company grows quickly, so will your opportunities for career advancement.

• Personal Growth:

Strengthen your team-playing abilities as well as your self-sufficiency. Get the most out of the experience and develop your social skills by wearing many “hats” and making important decisions.

• Your impact on the product:

When you are launching a product, you are spending most of the time getting useful things done. It’s really fast and cheap to add a new feature. It’s even faster to remove that feature and try another one. Also, in a team of 5 or 6 people, you definitely have a massive impact on the product.

• Learning:

The innovative nature of a startup usually allows you to have close contact with the founders who are usually some of the best people to learn from. Also, expect to get a lot of exposure to the intricacies of the entire business operation.

• Diverse Work Schedule:

There’s a lot of work to be done but depending on your work’s perks, you could negotiate a very flexible schedule. working from home or even get weekends off…

• Be Influential:

Fewer layers to the Founders means there is more of a chance for opinions to matter. Moreover, the work you do at a startup makes a real difference and can have a significant impact on the success (or failure) of the business.

• Expand your network:

Get access to industry events, local meetups and build your professional contacts with like-minded professionals. This can go a long way when looking for recommendations or new career opportunities.

• High-level Job Opportunities:

Startups are ever-changing and if you do your job well, you could fast track into a management position a lot quicker than an established company with a defined hierarchy.

• What usually happens to ideas in big companies:

If it’s your idea and you are not an executive, it will take forever to be validated. Then, you need to consider the impact on your users, your tech stack, or the data. So you need a migration plan 😨.

If the migration has an impact on the users, you will probably create a parallel UI. If data need to be migrated, it will certainly take 10x times longer than you think until you make it work in a reasonable amount of time. If it’s an architecture (think migrating from Angular to React, or Rails 4.1 to Rails 5, etc.), we are talking weeks or months of development. Oh, and most of the time the migration is not worth the effort. So you are stuck with your old interface, your outdated data or your inefficient tech stack.

• Be a Part of It All:

And last but by no means least, you should join a startup because it’s a unique experience to help build something and be part of its growth from the very beginning. This means living the high highs, low lows, and everything in between.