Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order250k a year in 5 years at a big corporation, really? Yea if you're lucky to work on a project/team higher-ups care about and are also willing to bust your ass working long hours to meet insane deadlines. Also, you better be someone who is excellent at communication and charismatic if you want to get invited to the table of interesting work. There are a lot of brilliant hyper-competitive people who work at these big companies and you will be…
For most junior folks I meet, I recommend starting their career at a big company rather than a startup. In my experience, the dysfunctions at big companies are too much process (which you can still learn from) whereas the dysfunctions at startups are often a lack of process (functionally unknown unknowns). I've found it's much easier to solve process issues at a startup after working at a big company than vice versa.
Great article. I've always wanted to apply for Microsoft, but never did so due to imposter syndrome. I'm gonna study some more and apply soon. Thank you for the read.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278 400+ comments
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 803
- Total comments
- 463
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-12-18 | Big Company vs. Startup Work and CompensationFirst breakout · Best thread | ingve | 730 | 402 |
| 2015-12-29 | Big Company vs. Startup Work and Pay | calpaterson | 2 | 1 |
| 2017-11-16 | Big company vs. startup work and pay | ot | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-12-18 | Big company vs. startup work and pay (2015) | lebanon_tn | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-02-09 | Startup Tradeoffs | el_benhameen | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-03-05 | Big Companies vs. Startups | vinnyglennon | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-03-27 | Big Companies vs. Startups | mxstbr | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-08-30 | Big companies v. startups (2015) | kyshoc | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-10-02 | Big Companies vs. Startups | animationwill | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-11-10 | Big Companies vs. Startups | fizwhiz | 7 | 1 |
| 2024-05-15 | Big Companies vs. Startups (2015)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | fzliu | 49 | 59 |
| 2025-10-22 | Big Companies vs. Startups | aamederen | 4 | 0 |