Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
by steveBK123 on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:15PM
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Personally all large company processes start to rhyme and things feel like ground hog day.
After spending the first 10 years of my career at 100K+ employee firms, I've only worked at 500 - 2500 person companies since.
There's benefits from a process perspective of working at a big place and understanding what guardrails may be useful, and I suppose later in career boomerang back and sort of slowly coast into retirement..
But mid career if you know what you are doing and want to deliver, huge firms can be very very stifling places.
After spending the first 10 years of my career at 100K+ employee firms, I've only worked at 500 - 2500 person companies since.
There's benefits from a process perspective of working at a big place and understanding what guardrails may be useful, and I suppose later in career boomerang back and sort of slowly coast into retirement..
But mid career if you know what you are doing and want to deliver, huge firms can be very very stifling places.