When Sravish Sridhar was graduating from UT Austin, he got an offer letter from a hot, mid-size software company. The firm even sent him a silver-plated pen from Tiffany & Co. to sign the letter. It was a nice touch, but Sridhar declined. Instead of taking the sure thing, he joined United Devices, a distributed computing startup, and he has never looked back.
That was in 2000—the height of the tech bubble—but some trends are back in style. Chief among them: the mainstream popularity of joining tech startups, and (in turn) the large number of startups looking to hire top talent. Over the past year or two, the competition for this talent has hit a fever pitch in the Boston area and across the country, with companies of all stripes pulling out all the stops to land their top prospects.
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