Has anyone here worked at a start-up?

[Aeolienne]

I'd be interested to know what your experience was like. It could be said that a start-up environment, especially a high-growth one, has a degree of ambiguity and occasional interpersonal demands which might be too much for an autistic worker to handle. On the hand, maybe a company that accepts change as constant and is used to frequent staff turnover might have better procedures in place to ensure smooth onboarding and handovers. What do you think?

 

[Shevek]

At my little start-up, the big problem was not having all the necessary talents on board. Versatility was needed. There was also a steep learning curve everywhere.
"The essence of modern management is to make individual strengths productive, and individual weaknesses irrelevant." - Peter Drucker
Look for a start-up that needs what you have, and has smart management. A lot of places will have people doing jobs badly quite unawares. Some of those people will be entrenched, with fragile feelings; some can be easily displaced. I once got my boss fired for incompetence and lack of experience.

 

[Judge]

I can't cite any businesses I ever worked for who could be classified as "startup" operations. However it is interesting to see some solid commentaries that both support or oppose startups with high turnovers.

A perspective that may be tied predominantly to Scandinavian sources, as opposed to the more conservative and conventional sources more often found in the business world. Take your pick.

Employee Turnover: When High Turnover Is Actually Beneficial for Business

https://www.forbes.com/councils/for...see-high-turnover-and-how-leaders-can-fix-it/

 

[Dagan]

Kozmo (dot) com - I ran their inventory control process back in 1998. I had 600 shares of stock, that if they hadn't laid off so many of us, kept us ongoing, that when it all became Amazon, I would be pretty well off right now. Ugh.