I work in a French start-up with a lot of grandes écoles engineers, and a good deal tier-1 at that (Telecom ParisTech and Supelec mostly). So let's no over-generalize.
There's a culture of risk aversion in France, and it pushes a lot of people toward big corps as they're seen as safer. But they can also be a trap: be comfortable costing for most of your career, safely ticked inside the borg. But if you go through a big restructuring past your 50s you'll be toast, and have a real hard time recovering (if you can). Personally I prefer environment that force you to keep in shape and fit. I fear I would let me cost in a big company...
For the copy/paste business school driven start-ups, I'm sure there are a lot of them (not in my field, but it's hard core tech and capital intensive, not a good match for "pipo" people) but the issue there maybe the relative lack of start-ups founded by techies?
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I work in a French start-up with a lot of grandes écoles engineers, and a good deal tier-1 at that (Telecom ParisTech and Supelec mostly). So let's no over-generalize.
There's a culture of risk aversion in France, and it pushes a lot of people toward big corps as they're seen as safer. But they can also be a trap: be comfortable costing for most of your career, safely ticked inside the borg. But if you go through a big restructuring past your 50s you'll be toast, and have a real hard time recovering (if you can). Personally I prefer environment that force you to keep in shape and fit. I fear I would let me cost in a big company...
For the copy/paste business school driven start-ups, I'm sure there are a lot of them (not in my field, but it's hard core tech and capital intensive, not a good match for "pipo" people) but the issue there maybe the relative lack of start-ups founded by techies?