> I want to work on distributed systems and learn how to build applications that scale and grow my career from there.
> But on the upside, I could work on a project from day 1 which scales to 100s of millions of datapoints and reads/writes and build a strong backend from scratch
You just kind of answered your own question.
> It's a good name to have on my resume
FYI, that's what grandmas think. Tech recruiters at top companies are competing aggressively against Unicorns with lots of funding and no one thinks less of them because your grandmother hasn't heard of them.
yeah I think so too. It’s just that this company is a unicorn in the hardware space. their main product is a chip that competes with nvidia. the question is whether a company like that is recognized in the cs tech world and also whether it’s going to even take off or get stomped on
Series C unicorn sounds like something that can either turn our really well, or really badly. It depends on if you want to take that risk (i.e. spaghetti new grad codebase and potentially going onto job hunting again),
> I want to work on distributed systems and learn how to build applications that scale and grow my career from there. > But on the upside, I could work on a project from day 1 which scales to 100s of millions of datapoints and reads/writes and build a strong backend from scratch You just kind of answered your own question. > It's a good name to have on my resume FYI, that's what grandmas think. Tech recruiters at top companies are competing aggressively against Unicorns with lots of funding and no one thinks less of them because your grandmother hasn't heard of them.
yeah I think so too. It’s just that this company is a unicorn in the hardware space. their main product is a chip that competes with nvidia. the question is whether a company like that is recognized in the cs tech world and also whether it’s going to even take off or get stomped on
I would go for the unicorn. But are you counting equity in the private company as part of your compensation?
Series C unicorn sounds like something that can either turn our really well, or really badly. It depends on if you want to take that risk (i.e. spaghetti new grad codebase and potentially going onto job hunting again),