Comment my experience (Score 3) 49
I worked at a dot-gone that is now struggling and is on the verge of collapse, one round of layoffs down and another soon to come (so I hear).
I left on my own accord and took a position at a
manufacturing based company that has been in business for a while.
Having this perspective, I can say that the biggest problem for ex-dot commers is going to be that of corporate culture.
The dot-gone corporate culture is grounded in excess; avante-guard offices and furnishings, silly toys for the employees, and excessive 'project management' meddling. The dot-gone I worked for had more project managers than people actually creating shit, and they had a blank check to write for any flight of fantasy that suited them. We spent more time in meetings with these people and it was apparent they were hired in the "grow like mad" phases of venture funding without much regard for their resumes. These people had to justify their own existence and did it in very frivolous ways. They also tended to surround themselves with hires they knew would be good patsies. So we had a ton of these "uber-geek" web developers and shticky e-commerce hucksters running around; people whose
resumes were buzz words pasted together out of Wired and were never verified for authenticity. It was disgusting, it was like romper room, so I left.
My company now has no beer bashes, no pool tables, no Ikea furnished offices and thank God, no project managers. And I am getting more done and learning more than I ever did in dot-com playland. Fortunately the things I put on my resume I can back up in an interview. But many of these people are going to have a heck of a time ahead of them because unless they can back up their "experience" with solid fundamentals, the time spent at dot-coms is going to be a VOID on their resumes that traditional employers are going to be very skeptical of.
I left on my own accord and took a position at a
manufacturing based company that has been in business for a while.
Having this perspective, I can say that the biggest problem for ex-dot commers is going to be that of corporate culture.
The dot-gone corporate culture is grounded in excess; avante-guard offices and furnishings, silly toys for the employees, and excessive 'project management' meddling. The dot-gone I worked for had more project managers than people actually creating shit, and they had a blank check to write for any flight of fantasy that suited them. We spent more time in meetings with these people and it was apparent they were hired in the "grow like mad" phases of venture funding without much regard for their resumes. These people had to justify their own existence and did it in very frivolous ways. They also tended to surround themselves with hires they knew would be good patsies. So we had a ton of these "uber-geek" web developers and shticky e-commerce hucksters running around; people whose
resumes were buzz words pasted together out of Wired and were never verified for authenticity. It was disgusting, it was like romper room, so I left.
My company now has no beer bashes, no pool tables, no Ikea furnished offices and thank God, no project managers. And I am getting more done and learning more than I ever did in dot-com playland. Fortunately the things I put on my resume I can back up in an interview. But many of these people are going to have a heck of a time ahead of them because unless they can back up their "experience" with solid fundamentals, the time spent at dot-coms is going to be a VOID on their resumes that traditional employers are going to be very skeptical of.
