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Pro: You get to build things from scratch, I like this one most.

Con: You find yourself at the end of the work-life balance, which might not be comfortable for everyone.

It's a great initiative, today itself I was thinking if there can a common test to get a job, but then I realized companies do not just test the engineering or field knowledge.

PS: I thought refreshing the page will show an early day picture of dropbox/reddit/stripe/instacart and so on.



> Pro: You get to build things from scratch, I like this one most.

That hits the nail in the head! Having exprience in building things from scratch has to be invaluable down the road in your career.




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