Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission

The second one is not necessarily a bad solution, just illustrates the point that in the absence of BigCo scale, you, as an engineer, might not get a chance to architect systems you might get at a bigger company

I am still not done with startups, though. But I think these are a small subset of startups and a lot of things have to align for your startup experience, as an engineer, to be worthwhile:

You should at least have one or two of these things. However, to me, it’s dubious how many startup successes, especially in India, have been great for, say, 20th to 50th engineer at those companies.

Source: jatins.gitlab.io