I work at one of the companies in the parent post (~1/2 year), and worked mainly at startups prior.
I have less meetings than I had at most startups by a significant fraction.
I have total technical direction on the product I work on (within reason).
I have gotten to code in more languages than at any other shop I’ve been at, most of which I had zero professional experience in prior.
I work on an internal product that excites me & is more complex than anything else I have worked with prior professionally.
I work with any technology I like that does the job, new or old.
Have no competition to jump into management because not enough engineers want to become managers.
I also have flexibility to take days off unofficially because I work hard of my own volition, as well as work from home, and almost all of the flexibility I have gotten from startups.
Not to say I don’t like some things about startups - after all,
I worked at them for about 75% of my career spanning over 5 years. There are a lot of myths about bigger companies out there though I have found at my current job, and friends at similar companies like Facebook and Netflix.
I have less meetings than I had at most startups by a significant fraction. I have total technical direction on the product I work on (within reason). I have gotten to code in more languages than at any other shop I’ve been at, most of which I had zero professional experience in prior. I work on an internal product that excites me & is more complex than anything else I have worked with prior professionally. I work with any technology I like that does the job, new or old. Have no competition to jump into management because not enough engineers want to become managers. I also have flexibility to take days off unofficially because I work hard of my own volition, as well as work from home, and almost all of the flexibility I have gotten from startups.
Not to say I don’t like some things about startups - after all, I worked at them for about 75% of my career spanning over 5 years. There are a lot of myths about bigger companies out there though I have found at my current job, and friends at similar companies like Facebook and Netflix.