Michael O. Church has interesting meta posts on engineer careers dealing with politics at big orgs: https://web.archive.org/web/20160113210613/https://michaeloc...

That’s a great question. I’m not sure of any particular podcast or episode dealing with this but I, too, wish I had a podcast or something to listen to to help me know what to expect when I joined my first startup. I’ll pass this on to the Software Engineering daily podcast and Developer Tea podcast.

Update: I’ve tweeted at both podcasts your idea as it’s a great idea