Job hunting problem: going to a startup company or a non-startup company

at the beginning of your career, go to a big company if you have the chance. When your ability is not independent, please stay in a big company.

in our father's generation, it is not a question at all whether to choose a big company or a small company. Decide on a big company! Being able to enter the largest company "System" was definitely the most glorious thing of that era, and many places are still proud of being civil servants. However, our generation of young people, who don't know the little land, have been clamoring to reflect their personal values. They always feel that life is a hundred years, and it is a waste of life to be a screw. Especially in this era of Internet entrepreneurship, this issue is often mentioned by young people. Internet entrepreneurship may be a little cold now, and it was super crazy in 15 years. I felt that I wanted to start a business for all, so I started an app ...

According to my past communication with candidates, there are two main reasons why candidates joined a startup company (non-founder).

first, money. This is the most important thing. Young people are impatient. They feel that they can take a job in the best time and slowly save money. When can they buy a house and a car and marry Bai Fumei? Why not fight hard while they are young, so go out and start a business. If you don't have the capital to start a business, then join a startup company. You can't be a CEO, and it's not bad to be a VP or director.

However, most of those who joined the startup companies in order to accelerate the realization of financial freedom ended up disappointed. A bowl of chicken soup that I often drink is: Time will not disappoint those who work hard. But it takes time to accumulate. If you want to spend a year or two to complete other people's 1-year wealth accumulation, you must either make a smart decision or daydreaming.

give two examples. I have a friend who graduated in 214 and worked in marketing. So far, I have changed 3-4 companies (all good companies), and I always feel boring. Recently resigned again. The reason is that the salary is too low, saving money is too slow, and I want to start my own business. Although I work in human resources, I really can't save her ...

The other one is a candidate I met before. The candidate started from a fairly high place in the Internet industry, a BAT company, but when he left, he only had 2-3 years of work experience, and his position was not high, so he could not be independent. He went to a medium-sized company for 8 months, and then went to a small company for 9 months. I just submitted my resignation report when I contacted him. In this process, his salary has been greatly increased, doubled, the title of his position has been rising all the way, and the team he has brought is getting bigger and bigger, but all his projects have failed. When talking with him, he hoped to keep his current salary level and current position title, but go to a slightly mature company. This is basically impossible. So he will either continue to work in a similar small company, but the longer he works, the lower his worth will be, or he will lower his salary and title and return to work in a big company.

second, opportunities. Even the best people in big companies can't avoid the fate of screws. Whether you go or not, the company is there and runs as usual. But in a small company, you will have more opportunities to participate in all aspects, which is easily understood by students as "more learning opportunities". I chose a small headhunting company when I graduated. In the headhunting industry, inexperienced fresh graduates will be regarded as a human flesh search engine. Every day, they will either search resumes in the database, or hit the company list or cold call, and there is no chance to operate a case independently. But in this company, I can operate multiple cases independently from the first day of internship, and I will have 5-6 emergency positions on average. I can communicate directly with customers, and I can even go to independent BD.

But I finally left. Why? Because I found everything I thought was great, and others didn't even bother to look at it.

when headhunters look for candidates, they usually come according to the target position of the target company. For example, if I want to find a candidate for the mobile phone industry, I must go from company to company according to Apple, Samsung, LG, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, Yijia, Hammer, Lenovo, Yulong, ZTE, Motorola, Blackberry, Sony, Nokia (Microsoft), HTC and so on, or some famous solution studios. But you said that you made a lot of knockoffs in Huaqiang North, and you did things done by several departments of other companies by yourself. I can only say that you really worked hard, but it may not be what I need. Such a candidate delivers a low-level position in a big company, and HR may also invite you for an interview; However, if you are in a middle or senior position, your resume may fail directly, and there is no chance to show your ability.

In fact, to have more opportunities is nothing more than to exercise one's ability, and to exercise one's ability is nothing more than to sell oneself at a better price. But sometimes the inner ability needs an external brand to show. This is why universities are sometimes very important, and some companies only need 985,211 universities, because those people alone have enough HR choices, so why increase their workload. Look at the school requirements of Netease, and you will understand how important a good background is:

Recruitment schools: Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Fudan University, Tongji University, Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology

Besides, are there really fewer opportunities in big companies? Many, many opportunities can only be provided when the company develops to a certain stage, such as transferring to work abroad. Such as job rotation, such as trying various cutting-edge projects ... For example, there are quite a few interns and fresh graduates in our department. Once I went to attend a digital marketing conference, because I heard that it was quite professional and essence. When I went in, I found an intern in their department taking minutes of the meeting in a corner. Although she is only an intern, she can't go to the table to participate in professional discussions, but it is such an opportunity for her to see the views displayed and discussed among professionals. For another example, some departments need to cooperate with third parties frequently. Many suppliers often come to visit and promote their latest technology and products, and the seniors of the company always bring their interns to discuss together. And if you are in a small company, you may need to find opportunities to contact these external products yourself, instead of waiting for others to deliver them to your door.

whenever you want to go to a small company, you can think about it from these angles, evaluate your current situation and make a decision.

first, was your previous company a good one?

If so, you can spend some time to start a business. If it fails in a few months, it will not affect your worth. If it succeeds, so much the better. If not, please think carefully.

second, did you change jobs frequently before? Did you work long hours in your last job or two?

I don't know when the startup suddenly disappeared. If you can only do it for a few months, the experience is still not very good. Although you didn't leave subjectively, your resume is not good. Under the same conditions, enterprises will choose people with better stability. Of course, if you have been jumping around in a good company before, that's fine.

third: how to pay the provident fund and five insurances for you?

since you are a startup company for money, you should count every penny clearly. Start-up companies are generally not very standardized. They have seen Alipay transfer money, paid according to the local minimum wage (about 18), and then paid five insurances and one gold according to this standard, and paid the rest in smuggling accounts or cash, in order to avoid taxes. Although the income you get has increased, the company's expenditure on you is not high. Moreover, if the next company asks you to provide proof of salary, you can't provide it if the bank is running smoothly. You have to explain it well, and your overall income may not have improved much.

fourth: it's hooliganism to say only the monthly salary and not the annual salary!

some companies have a salary of 12, some have a salary of 14, some have a salary of 17, and some have a year-end of more than ten months. How do you compare this? Start-ups may not even make it to the end of the year ... where is the year-end bonus? However, after all, large companies will not go bankrupt instantly, or even if they go bankrupt, there is a better compensation system. See Nokia, N+5 months compensation (N stands for years of working in the company, and 8 years is 8 months).

Fifth: Will joining a small company affect your future choice?

suppose the market level of your ability is 15K, and a startup company suddenly has money to drive you to 21K. If the company disappears after half a year, will your requirements for a new job be at least 21K? However, there is a salary system inside a big company, and this balance cannot be broken, otherwise everyone will have to go up.

Some friends around me sometimes come back and ask me if I want to change jobs or accept an offer. I mainly look at two points when making an evaluation: money &; Platform.

Money includes salary income, welfare income and future income. Wage income is the most practical. Forget it when you meet a boss who only talks about ideals and doesn't talk about money. Even if you want to fight, don't fight for a company like this boss. Your efforts can get better returns elsewhere.

In addition to five insurances and one gold, welfare income includes three meals a day, holiday gifts, company trips and other welfare provisions. For example, I heard from my classmates in Goose Factory that they can apply for an interest-free loan of up to 5, yuan from the company after working for three years, and the company will help pay the interest. Coupled with the provident fund loan, Goose Factory students can buy a house in Beishangguangshen and Shenzhen on their own. Some second-tier Internet companies have high salaries, but the benefits in this respect are poor. These are the gaps.

future income refers to the income increase after job hopping. Jumping from big first-tier companies to small companies generally has an increase of more than 3%. Many candidates from BAT have jumped to companies such as Netease, UC and YY with an increase of more than 4%. If they are willing to jump down one level, they can have a higher increase. (The Internet is too local, and traditional industries generally don't have such a high increase. Please don't be blinded by the Internet industry and ask for an irrational salary increase when you change jobs.) I don't encourage young people to do such things at the early stage of their career development. People climb higher, so why don't BAT people try the flag (Facebook, linkedin, amazon, Google). Don't overdraw your value too early.

the platform includes company brand, circle of friends and so on. Simply put, it is whether your colleagues are awesome or not, and whether they can really fly together as B. Whether he can bring you high-quality resources in the future, such as better job opportunities, better friends and so on. If you are the highest educated person in a company, I suggest you leave quickly. Because you can only give and get very little here, you keep sending light and heat to the outside until you become ashes.

it is very good to have both money and platform. Otherwise, either give money or give the platform. If there is nothing, then try to see other options. Do you still have to hang yourself from a tree?

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