That's a good suggestion to look at the product first and see if I'll like it. I will look westward for those companies because I find more interesting software

That's a good suggestion to look at the product first and see if I'll like it. I will look westward for those companies because I find more interesting software and other products there. Most of the startup ideas in my city, Chicago, hate to say it, sound mundane. Chicago is big, has many software jobs, but not much in the way of software startups or unicorns. It's not a tech center of USA and entrepreneurs built a different mindset I think. Some have even gone as far as saying, a company like Snapchat will never have grown as big as it did if it started in my city. I'll probably not work for Google, not because I don't want to, but generally speaking any company that has been doing well for 10+ years hasn't given me any offers or rejects my resume.