Johnson: New grads with debt should choose big tech over startups
Jarvis Johnson · Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator · May 1, 2019 · at 12:53
Former Yelp and Google engineer turned YouTuber Jarvis Johnson argues against common advice pushing new graduates directly into early-stage startups.
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“I think there's a lot of advice that's going to say like, oh, you might learn so much more at the startup. And it's like, maybe that's true. But I think you should be asking like, am I going to learn the right stuff? Am I going to learn good habits and good patterns? Or am I going to be like trying to build something with like the fire, like the worry that the company is going to collapse on my shoulders. And I'm going to be doing that for like far less money. And if you've got, you know, you're in personal finances to take care of, or you've got dependents or you're helping out your family and stuff. You, I think that the smart decision in a lot of, I know that the smart decision for me was to work at a bigger company out of out of college and take care of all that.”
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