"A certain level of professionalism is expected for a real job. Nobody cares what you wear, or where you work, or how you work when you're making yet another Instagram clone."
Let's see... you can wear shorts, work from home, and move fast and break things, or you can wear a tie to go to an office park and build DMV software. I'm not surprised that the people with a lot of options choose the startups.
Well, I suppose the difference between the two is that in the former, you do nothing of relevance for a product that doesn't matter (which is why it can break repeatedly without incident). In the latter, you are building a program/system that people are actually using to do things.
DMV software may not be sexy, but it is infinitely more valuable than yet another Instragram clone.
Let's see... you can wear shorts, work from home, and move fast and break things, or you can wear a tie to go to an office park and build DMV software. I'm not surprised that the people with a lot of options choose the startups.