<p>I want to know this because many say that it's better to work at a start-up than to work at a big company.</p>
<p>Some do. But they may not have much of a travel budget, or time, to do a lot of visits to school career centers, especially out of area schools.</p>
<p>Whether it is better or not depends a lot of the company and the person in question.</p>
<p>I think grads should consider startups as potential employers. There are lots of benefits plus stock options.</p>
<p>You’d be hard press to find a start up with stock options because they aren’t public companies. It takes a while to bring a start up to public level.</p>
<p>That all ended with the dot.com bust.</p>
<p>Of course, you can always join a start up with the hope of one day getting IPO stock options. Big risk, imo.</p>
<p>You rather join a big company?</p>
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<p>If by “benefits” you mean the common benefits that employers may offer (medical insurance, long term disability insurance, pension or 401k plan, etc.), note that larger companies typically have better benefits, because many of the benefit providers do not want to deal with smaller accounts / employers.</p>
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<p>Pre-IPO companies may give stock options or other stock incentives to employees. The bigger issue with that is that, most of the time, they become worthless because the company never goes IPO or gets acquired in a way that converts the stock options or other stock incentives to something valuable. Of course, if you happen to be at one that does go IPO afterward, your stock options or other stock incentives become valuable.</p>
<p>knowlegeiskeyy “I think grads should consider startups as potential employers. There are lots of benefits plus stock options.”</p>
<p>Don’t assume that all start-up companies are going to offer an equity stake or options to a brand new hire. The entrepeneurs that took the risk and are the creative force behind the start-up may view new staff as foot soldiers to implement their vision. As the new guy you may need to prove that your skills are vital to the future success of the start-up before you can hope for potential equity benefits.</p>