When it comes to compensation I think it&#x27;s pretty clear that Big Companies win. You don&#x27;t even need to point to Google, Facebook, etc to make this point.<p>However, his argument becomes truly hand-wavey and spurious when it comes to the interesting work part. Of course some of the most interesting tech papers are coming out of Google, that doesn&#x27;t mean anything for the average Google employee. Also, in his, argument, he goes from &quot;here&#x27;s what the average can expect for compensation&quot; to, &quot;you need leverage to work on interesting things at big companies...get some&quot;.<p>Of course not all start ups provide interesting work, but I think the dice roll is solidly in the camp of start ups for interesting work against the Big Cos, whose interesting work dice roll, I would guess, is similar to the start up comp dice roll. Unless rebuilding a bog standard UI framework is your thing.<p>At my first startup job I got to:<p>- build a compiler<p>- implement shared memory on high traffic services<p>- play with any language I wanted<p>- manage smart and interesting people<p>- more stuff, but I&#x27;m tired of typing.