First Week as a SWE at a VC

  • A genuine question to those with VC or this kind of "spec ops coder" experience: is this kind of work worth it? I mean, yes, they are badass for putting in insane hours and foregoing everything else in life, but it seems a waste to spend this effort on a yet-another mess of an MVP held together with gum, twine, and duct tape.

  • So much drama for a work of week.

    Everything is an odyssey these days.

    "oh, they asked me to work before the agreement time", "they work during the weekend", what's the surprise? Sounds like a normal startup work.

    VCs most of the time have no clue what they are doing but will behave as if they had built Meta or Google.

  • Sounds awful for anyone who values work-life balance and code that isn't poorly hacked together at the last minute.