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Start-Ups
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- Location
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- Job Tasks
- A+
- Social Environment
- A+
- Management
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- Pay/Raises
Most people have never worked at a start-up. The last poster said there are "ups and downs". Yes, that is what happens at start-ups. If you want stability, apply to the US military or the nursing industry. If you don't want ups and downs (I dont have an answer for that one -- that is called life!)
If you are looking at any start-up, consider the following. This article sums it up pefectly.
http://www.theladders.com/career-advice/Pros-Cons-Joining-Startup
PS -- No companies are going public now. Worst recession in 70 years.
Why is it still a start up? How many years can a company be in existence and still refer to themselves as a start up? I'd think that after 7 or 8 years in business, more people would question the whole start up model. Actually, the real question should be: why aren't you past the start up phase? I know, Google and Yahoo took years before they became a huge success but I don't think they clung to the start up title as if it were some type of hip and cool term. I think they quickly decided to move beyond it and become a force to deal with and not something stuck in start up mode. I'd like the person who wrote the post (obvious management at smsac/fanbox) to answer my questions please. i cant wait to see the response.
The fact that one would even think that this is a start-up is laughable. I knew right away that something was fishy.... I asked once what bank was underwriting the supposed IPO...... no answer .... even the murkiness that existed about the finances leaves one to question whether or not they could even pass SOX, very unlikely (sarbannes-oxley, look it up). Many things are involved in going public, the fact that they said they were going public within six months every morning meeting only fueled the larger majority of employees to work over time. The reality is that every six months an old batch of employees was let go while a new crop was brought in. The old guard left at the edge of their seats believing that they still have a chance to strike at internet gold would eventually be released with nothing. Its modern day tech sweatshop composed of the elaborate get rich stories that we've read and heard about from the wall st. journal, and cnbc. You don't use the site, some poor guy that doesn't understand the vague language of an intricate premium sms plan in a third world country uses the site. Thats how you get paid if you work there. Look it up at alexa.com see if it is even a blip on the scale of internet use that they tell you it is, see if even one percent of the overall internet users have even clicked on the site once maybe thats how they calculate the 15 million users that don't use the site.
Obviously written by someone who wants to sell people on the jobs there.
Ken, quit making fake posts like you're not the VP of HR. Obviously all the postings out there that say anything remotely positive about this shit hole are written by Ken Smith, who will resort to anything to scam people into selling their souls by working for this dump.