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Discussion on: What size company do you work for? What's that like?

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Alvaro Montoro

17,000. (But I have worked in startups with basically 2 employees, including myself, to large corporations with 350,000 people, also including myself :P).

Most of the large companies I have worked on (including this one) tend to organize in groups that operate as "small companies within the big company" and interact with the other groups sparingly -in part because the operations are completely different-. You have a good insight of your project and the ones close to you, but the large picture is lost. Work is intense but normally comes in waves (while at a smaller company it is intense continuously) and you don't need to wear as many hats as you do in smaller places.