This is a very insightful comment. I found myself realizing daily, during my 2015 adventure, that the likelihood of success for me would have dropped precipitously if I did not already have a solid idea of how to handle version control, test-driven development, etc.
The speed at which startups move is a cause for concern, however, because many of the people with which I worked were simply "lean in" types, and would have been able to get a job doing just about anything. The problem was that many of these ninja rockstar 10x efficiency evangelists didn't really work with Git well and didn't really value the command line. Linux knowledge was very minimal.
I worked for four startups, and found that only one of them had ONE employee who had a solid computer science background.
The speed at which startups move is a cause for concern, however, because many of the people with which I worked were simply "lean in" types, and would have been able to get a job doing just about anything. The problem was that many of these ninja rockstar 10x efficiency evangelists didn't really work with Git well and didn't really value the command line. Linux knowledge was very minimal.
I worked for four startups, and found that only one of them had ONE employee who had a solid computer science background.