Breakout List Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• What sites do y'all use to find Software Engineer work?

  Ya LinkedIn, referrals from friends. For startups, it's a little trickier: use a combo of topstartups.io, breakoutlist.com, curated lists. Source: over 1 year ago

• Where do you go to search for jobs?

  Niche job boards are pretty good if you're already into that niche. But the problem with most of them is that the supply is either limited by who's willing to pay, or anyone can list and it gets very noisy. For startups, prefer topstartups.io and breakoutlist.com - good mix of quality & quantity. Source: about 2 years ago

• Just found out Stackoverflow has removed their job board (stackoverflow.com/jobs). It was my go to place to search for a new job. Would love to know if anyone here can suggest alternatives other than Linkedin :)

  Yup that’s the one. If you’re looking for startups, try https://topstartups.io and https://breakoutlist.com. Source: about 2 years ago

• Job Hunting While Day-Jobbing

  Ya the researching companies thing takes so long esp. If you're going for startups. These sites saved me a lot of time: https://topstartups.io/, https://breakoutlist.com/ Also helps to take a few days off here and there to get it all done, even if you're working remote. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Best path to (tech) entrepreneurship? (MBB consulting vs big tech SWE vs startup SWE)

  Some sites to get you started: topstartups.io (good curated list); angel.co (more startups but generally lower quality because anyone can post); breakoutlist.com (good curated list but doesn't update often and focuses on later-stage). Source: about 2 years ago

• Where to go?

  Breakout companies, try breakoutlist.com. Source: about 2 years ago

• Finding super early stage startups

  Topstartups.io is a good list - sources newly funded from top investors; breakoutlist.com is another good list, but updates less often and doesn't have as much early-stage. Source: about 2 years ago

• LOOKING FOR WEBSITES SIMILAR TO ANGEL.CO

  Https://breakoutlist.com/ - handpicked, updates less frequently. Source: over 2 years ago

• Growth Companies v FANNG

  The speaker admitted he was speaking in absolutes, and there are exceptions to every rule but he said that working at Google, Amazon, any big FANG type company is going to lead you to be unhappy because their are just less opportunities to learn compared to a growth type of company. Source: over 2 years ago

• Non FAAMG Product management roles

  Your two wants are opposed to each other. If you want to bank on joining a Series B/C that is posed for takeoff then you’ll likely have to be teaching yourself a lot. If it works out then your options could be worth a lot. Checkout https://breakoutlist.com/ for companies like this. Source: over 2 years ago

• Moving to the US from Ontario: Questions on Tax & Non-Residency

  Np, if you're in software engineering feel free to DM me, happy to refer you to Bolt (where I'm currently at, breakoutlist company) if you want. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How do I assess a startup before taking a Product role?

  Checkout this list of breakout startup companies, it evaluates them on multiple factors (high growth, impact potential, good team, recent funding, etc.) https://breakoutlist.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Anyone else sticking around at work as a sort of "adult daycare"?

  Https://breakoutlist.com/ has some. Source: almost 3 years ago

• List of toxic workplaces to not work for around here?

  Though it's getting a bit dated, the Breakoutlist is a good place to start for promising tech companies: https://breakoutlist.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Early career: joining mid-size startups vs. Big Tech™

  There's a lot of advice for ambitious young people to join mid-size, high-growth startups like ones mentioned in Breakout List and Wealthfront Career Launching Companies (e.x. From Marc Andreesen, Sam Altman, etc.). Idea is to, for example, be an employee at a company like Facebook, before it goes global, in order to maximize learning breadth, with the end goal of apply that knowledge and use those connections to... Source: almost 3 years ago