It's a pretty good start to one. That said, I work, not for a dot-com, but a consultancy which focuses on the internet, and a lot of our clients are either dot-coms or the dot-com arms of established firms. There's a lot of variation in the technical (or management) savvy of these clients, much more than I'd tend to expect.
The first two questions that I asked my interviewer were about turnover and profitability. I'd worked as a contractor for a while before starting here, and while contracting is hardly a "career" it's certainly a job. The result is that I've been here for two years (nearly to the day), the company has more than tripled in size and been acquired by a multinational in a related business.
I don't think that anyone in their twenties, and certainly not someone with the ambition to go work for a startup, thinks of a job as being their entire, lifetime career. People tend to bounce around quite a bit, especially technical experts. Unfortunately, most dot-com employees (like employees everywhere) are competent, but not top-notch experts, and may well just drop out of the labour pool in a bad economic spell.
Marco
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