From a software engineering point of view there are a couple of things that would potentially put me off applying to an EA-org:
Lack of mentorship (this is somewhat covered by your small teams point but this is the specific part that I think of). I’m sure this isn’t true for all EA orgs but the appeal of ie FAANG is that I am very confident that I’ll be able to get mentored by engineers at the top of the field, who likely already have a lot of experience mentoring, having good structures for mentors and are generally empowered to be great at that.
Small scope/scale for projects, particularly for frontend work. In SWE a big part of your career capital comes from being able to say you’ve worked on projects that are really big and/or really fast. There are plenty of fullstack jobs at EA orgs around at the moment but a lot of them are basically look after a website or build an app which will serve a niche community.
I think there has been discussion before about SWEs feeling like EA orgs don’t offer them enough career capital, but I can’t remember where and it doesn’t appear to have updated me much in favour of the EA orgs.
From a software engineering point of view there are a couple of things that would potentially put me off applying to an EA-org:
Lack of mentorship (this is somewhat covered by your small teams point but this is the specific part that I think of). I’m sure this isn’t true for all EA orgs but the appeal of ie FAANG is that I am very confident that I’ll be able to get mentored by engineers at the top of the field, who likely already have a lot of experience mentoring, having good structures for mentors and are generally empowered to be great at that.
Small scope/scale for projects, particularly for frontend work. In SWE a big part of your career capital comes from being able to say you’ve worked on projects that are really big and/or really fast. There are plenty of fullstack jobs at EA orgs around at the moment but a lot of them are basically look after a website or build an app which will serve a niche community.
I think there has been discussion before about SWEs feeling like EA orgs don’t offer them enough career capital, but I can’t remember where and it doesn’t appear to have updated me much in favour of the EA orgs.
Thank you!