Also Read | A year on, China is shaking up the worldStartup jobs in industries from payments to social media have become steadily more popular, says Lisa Cohen, an associate professor at McGill University’s business school who studies startups.
Many young workers fantasize about getting in early at, say, the next Facebook, tantalized by the rewards that come when a sink-or-swim enterprise proves itself viable.But that allure was severely tested in a year dominated by the pandemic, which has thrown the economy into tumult and increased the desire of job seekers like Mr.