There’s hustle. And then there’s excellence. Startups give their employees abundance of the former, but not as much of the latter. In the long run, this can seriously hurt career prospects.

This week, we set out to understand the skills startups give their youngest employees.. The skills they don’t. Where this can land them in their careers. Who is responsible for this.  And if you are such a startup employee, what you can do about it. 

This episode was written and hosted bySneha Vakharia, and engineered by Rajiv CN.

Cost to Company is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscribers-only business news platform.

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