To anyone who may be in this kind of situation, trust your instincts and leave

I once worked at a place where an employee started their first day at the start of the shift. They mumbled their way through it to lunch where they never returned. That's the shortest I've personally seen. Absolutely not a c-suite role or anything management related though.

Years ago I took a dev role at a very well known UK organisation, a prestigious brand supposedly good for the career. Their systems turned out to be smoke and mirrors of the most braindead kind. One and a half days in I'd seen enough and I quit. If you know, you know.

the stupendous risk taken on by founders confounds instincts, and we're already filtering to folks who have resorted to taking money from third- or fourth-tier options

> I was too worried about what it would look like to leave a company so soon after joining. You don’t have to put every job on your resume. :)

Execs can have bigger voids due to gardening leave, non competes so it looks OK. But honestly because you can (in theory) lie on your CV it ain’t worth worrying about. So the scenario where you die because you run out of money and need a job because of a gap can be remediated that way. Change the dates or something.

I'm trying to normalize this to my circle and strangers in India, where getting let go is a huge shame. I joined a company and my boss wanted me to be a human copilot, given a task and left for a few hours before getting interrupted. I copy pasted 500 line scripts in Lambda web editor, released certain versions for dev/prod, complained about sql injection and variables named data which overwrite each other depending on state and more crap.