98 karma · joined September 14, 2015
But they didn't really explain/sell what those optimisations are in the readme.
Disclaimer being that in each instance I joined in good faith, worked hard and added value to the company quickly (at least in the companies eyes), did my best to pragmatically resolve any major issue that happen to arise, and left once those resolutions reached a roadblock and that I felt I had made all reasonable attempts to fix things. On reflection it was always just a case of losing faith in the leadership of the company.
My advice to anyone starting out would be to do your best due diligence (read about it) before joining, but knowing that you'll only get the real workings of place from actually working in it, and especially if you are inexperienced you will have likely overlooked some subsequently obvious warning signs (I sure know I did in the past!). Throw yourself into it 100%, get established, then assess the situation. Always do your best to give everything the benefit of the doubt, and be open to being wrong, until you really just have to admit that you're right (or in reality you _think_ you're right), then move on if you have to in the most considerate way possible.
Future founders/leadership that I would want work with would (hopefully) understand my decision-making at those times, and would be confident enough that they could instil the motivation in me to continue to follow them long term.
I made a (pretty bare for now) repo for it if anyone is interested - https://github.com/DBCerigo/non-compete-standard-response/bl...
- Initial starting size
- How you will be picking researchers
- Any particularly novel initiatives/methodologies that will be encouraged
- How you will measure the group's success