Why Engineers Should Work At Start-Ups?
Most Engineering college students dream about working at large MNCs from the day they enter the college premises. By the time these students survive through to the final year, they #-Link-Snipped-#hear the opinions of lots of people about what kind of job they should grab.
As an engineer, if the key deciding factor for you is not the money, you should go and join a start-up company. Following are the few reasons why an engineer gains a lot more from a start up than what the start up gains from the engineer:
Opportunity ‘to engineer’
An engineer learns a lot more in the start-up company floor work after he/she has spent years sitting inside the closed walls of a classroom mugging up textual information, away from the creative field. Start-ups essentially consist of a small group of enthusiastic people who actually engineer the consumer product/service. This means that in a startup people will listen to your creative and technical inputs and you get to use your engineering mind and give your handful to the end product.
To be one with the passion
At a start-up, you can dip your hands on anything and everything that interests you i.e. if you are a programmer but good at choosing potential candidates for your team, you can be on the HR of your company simultaneously. You can work on designing the features, building the infrastructure, testing and integration, learning new technologies, fixing the bugs, interviewing candidates, calculating the statistics and all this happens beneath one roof. You come to work. You fix your own task list and you get all the credit for the work you did.
Learn while you work
Engineers, who are learners, build start-ups. If you have a crust of a learner and thirst for more, you have got to be at a start-up and doing some serious work. Start-up engineers know that sharing knowledge will help speed up the entire process and since they have hands-on experience, you will get tips and tricks about how the actual work gets done.
Creating a direct impact
Being a start-up engineer, your work counts and your team counts on you. Everyday you get to add value to the product and define new levels of scaling. You get to take decisions that have high impact on the whole development process and you know that you deal with the end users directly, so your work has impact on them too.
Looking at it closely
If you are comfortable with new challenges and can cope with changes and pitfalls on a daily basis, a start up company is your place to be in. You have to be quick on your feet in dealing with problems encountered and get things up and running as soon as possible, while avoiding the risk of the problem being repeated. You look closely at all the aspects of the engineering process.
Start-ups mean a lot of work, but working there is loads of fun. The product you are building or the technologies you are working on, are something that you nurture. You just have to believe in the vision of the founders of the company and be a part & parcel of the company’s success.
So, if you have a choice and would love to live a life of an engineer, work for a start-up.
As an engineer, if the key deciding factor for you is not the money, you should go and join a start-up company. Following are the few reasons why an engineer gains a lot more from a start up than what the start up gains from the engineer:
Opportunity ‘to engineer’
An engineer learns a lot more in the start-up company floor work after he/she has spent years sitting inside the closed walls of a classroom mugging up textual information, away from the creative field. Start-ups essentially consist of a small group of enthusiastic people who actually engineer the consumer product/service. This means that in a startup people will listen to your creative and technical inputs and you get to use your engineering mind and give your handful to the end product.
To be one with the passion
At a start-up, you can dip your hands on anything and everything that interests you i.e. if you are a programmer but good at choosing potential candidates for your team, you can be on the HR of your company simultaneously. You can work on designing the features, building the infrastructure, testing and integration, learning new technologies, fixing the bugs, interviewing candidates, calculating the statistics and all this happens beneath one roof. You come to work. You fix your own task list and you get all the credit for the work you did.
Learn while you work
Engineers, who are learners, build start-ups. If you have a crust of a learner and thirst for more, you have got to be at a start-up and doing some serious work. Start-up engineers know that sharing knowledge will help speed up the entire process and since they have hands-on experience, you will get tips and tricks about how the actual work gets done.
Creating a direct impact
Being a start-up engineer, your work counts and your team counts on you. Everyday you get to add value to the product and define new levels of scaling. You get to take decisions that have high impact on the whole development process and you know that you deal with the end users directly, so your work has impact on them too.
Looking at it closely
If you are comfortable with new challenges and can cope with changes and pitfalls on a daily basis, a start up company is your place to be in. You have to be quick on your feet in dealing with problems encountered and get things up and running as soon as possible, while avoiding the risk of the problem being repeated. You look closely at all the aspects of the engineering process.
Start-ups mean a lot of work, but working there is loads of fun. The product you are building or the technologies you are working on, are something that you nurture. You just have to believe in the vision of the founders of the company and be a part & parcel of the company’s success.
So, if you have a choice and would love to live a life of an engineer, work for a start-up.
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