I got lucky with a US startup.

At first I wasn't satisfied with working their hours, so I kept applying for UK firms.

(I've since adjusted with lazy mornings and no sociability in the evenings.)

But there's nothing. I mean nothing. Lots of companies putting out the exact same job listings, month after month, and I refuse to believe that they haven't found the right candidate after 6 months of continuous interviews.

They're either projecting growth but not actually hiring, or are waiting for someone to tell them that they'd happily work for almost nothing.

Then there's the horror stories of the major re-orgs happening at large companies, and the hire-and-dump schemes that seem to be prevalent. Who would have thought that small startups were the stable ones? It's a shitshow.