5 perks of working for a start-up over a regular corporate job

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5 perks of working for a start-up over a regular corporate job
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Yes, the pay is less. Yes, the stability is not guaranteed and it is absolutely true that they run the risk of closing down soon. Nonetheless, the perk of starting your career in a start-up has no comparison.

1. Wealth of experience- There is no fixed work time. In a corporate house, you are given time to know what is what. Induction itself takes one week. The sole motive is to help you acclimatize to the alien structure. But, do not ever expect so in a start-up. When you join a start-up, it would feel like you have been thrown into a fire. You would be stuffed with crazy workload. Start-ups have few members onboard and hence, you are hired with the expectation that half of the company’s target would be achieved through you. How much scary this may sound, this is the best part of working there. You can directly contribute to the company’s growth and manipulate it accordingly. Start-ups make you industry ready much before you even feel yourself at place there.

2. Freedom- The main problem with 9-to-5 job is its robotic work schedule - come in, complete task, go home, rinse and repeat. But in a start-up, every hour and every minute is about reinventing it. You will come under the roof of those who left their stable high-paid job to give their crazy ideas a concrete shape. You are expected to be innovative, by default. Inhuman working hours would be coupled with the opportunity to invent new ways to do a work. People trust you to give your quirky idea a try. Each day is different. Knowing that you won’t be bored is a huge selling point.



3. Transparency- Before putting forward my next point, it is of utmost importance that you know who is who in a corporate office. There is a big boss who leads everyone. Under him there is a set of people who is headed by a boss. Under him there are sets of people and each have its own boss. Bored already? So many bosses, so many employees, so many sets and so many categories, people prefer staying ignorant. Join a start-up and the whole team comes to greet you personally on your very first day. The big boss coming up to a fresher and asking for ideas as to how the start-up can be made better is a pretty common scene here.
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4. Steep learning curve- In a start-up, the hierarchy goes berserk. From handling back end to front end to marketing and promotion, you would get to do it all. You would get to work with the senior management and make impactful decisions. Who would not give up everything to work with his boss on the latter’s project directly, in a corporate workplace.

5. Informal work environment- Wearing shorts and t-shirts to work, walls painted with pictures of minions and coloured lights filled beer bottles, start-ups go that extra mile to save one from being bored. Their motto- didn’t corporate jobs bored you enough already. What else, corporate are slowly copying start-up work culture. Infosys’s recent decision to allow informal wear to work, for instance.

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