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Congratulations, You've been fired!

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1.  ] by Dan Lyons @nytimes.com - Lyons is a writer who transitions into a career as a software developer working for a trendy startup company named Hubspot. This is a brief insight into his experience working there

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1. ] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/congratulations-youve-been-fired.html?_r=0

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1. ] 2016-04-09

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1. ] HubSpot was founded in 2006 in Cambridge, Mass., and went public in 2014. It’s one of those slick, fast-growing start-ups that are so much in the news these days, with the beanbag chairs and unlimited vacation — a corporate utopia where there is no need for work-life balance because work is life and life is work. Imagine a frat house mixed with a kindergarten mixed with Scientology, and you have an idea of what it’s like. 
2. ] Tech workers have no job security. You’re serving a “tour of duty” that might last a year or two, according to the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, who is the co-author of a book espousing his ideas, “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age.” Companies burn you out and churn you out when someone better, or cheaper, becomes available. “Your company is not your family,” is another line from Mr. Hoffman’s book.
3. ] UNFORTUNATELY, working at a start-up all too often involves getting bossed around by undertrained (or untrained) managers and fired on a whim. Bias based on age, race and gender is rampant, as is sexual harassment. The free snacks are nice, but you also must tolerate having your head stuffed with silly jargon and ideology about being on a mission to change the world. Wealth is generated, but most of the loot goes to a handful of people at the top, the founders and venture capital investors.
4. ]  The “business development representatives,” who were really glorified telemarketers, were paid around $3,000 a month, which works out to $18.75 per hour, if you work 40 hours a week, though many worked more. Grinding out phone calls, trying to make a number, hooked to a machine that watches you work — this is progress?  

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1. ] SRC=HN(669)/comments(423)
2. ] * Dan has been making the rounds with this article, and a series of similar artilces promoting his new book “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble.” Here are some other variants of it 
3. > ] When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don’t Even Bother to Lie (linkedin.com), SRC=HN(245)/comments(186)  

 

 

 

 

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