u/michaelnovati replied ·
It's more important that the team is good and you will learn a lot from them. Things like having code review from strong engineers, being in a tech-driven environment where engineering work matters (rather than being seen as just like a builder in a cave writing code for business people). Being exposed to large scale and complex infrastructure. Having an interesting and complex problem to build. Running well run user studies and experimentation.
You can get that at a top-tier, well funded, experienced-founder startup. And you can get that at top tier companies.
You can also have bad experiences at both startups and at large companies.