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

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Gabriel Laroche

We're over 4000 in total, but we are only 30 in our office and we don't have a lot of contact with the other offices except for Windsor and Montreal, so it really feels like a small company with all the great benefits of a big company.

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

lucky you...

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Ben Halpern

What kinds of big company benefits exactly?

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Gabriel Laroche

like great insurance, job security, really big and interesting projects. Even if I like playing with multiple disciplines like web design and back-end development, I'm nowhere near as good at that stuff than I am at front-end development, so I can focus on my job and rely on my great teammates that are way better at this than me. In short, we have a lot of resources and that's pretty nice.

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Ken Flake

15 - 25-ish people. A startup. Codegum, Inc.

Much like @danielw said, it's quite a privilege to get to do (almost) everything.
But it's hard. 😂 But it's part of the process. So it's fun.

And you learn, slowly, the art of adapting to the different technologies. I guess that's what's important.

And it feels like I recommend it now for people starting on their software development journey.

Start small, and work to learn.

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Andrew Chou • Edited

Small startup, with 12 people total once tomorrow comes (Consider). It's definitely challenging for me since it's essentially my first full-time role since graduating. Involvement in a lot of different areas of the product provides many opportunities for growth, which I'm lucky to have so early in my career. I personally appreciate the smaller team size because it feels more manageable to communicate with and learn from my peers :)

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Carlos Trapet

Same, 5 devs, 12 people in total. Recently moved from a huge company and I must say, start-ups all the way! :)

PS: Whoever thought of that wiggly line that moves with you while you scroll on your /company page is a design genius

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Gene

Checked out the startup! Looks really cool.

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Elliot

Working at a startup as a first full-time job sounds like a good idea. You learn a lot right off the starting line!

Cool startup, and wow, that's a pretty landing page.

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

Mine is a startup, like 50 60 people. Its ECOM based. ourshopee. It's a bit challenging as the maximum code is legacy but its fun.

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Evaldas Buinauskas

Startup but code is legacy already? 🙄

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

I joined recently. its 3.5 years old, in core PHP. Trust me when you see the code it feels like an ancient manuscript.

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Orkhan Farmanli

I've been in such a situtation too. We ended up writing everything from ground.

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

I proposed the same but the proposal was brutally rejected.

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Gene

Core PHP is not something to worry about if it functions the way it was intended. It may seem nice to re-write everything from the ground but for a business perspective that's a big risk. That usually happens when the company grows and have enough budget for the R&D division.

There's always room for improvement!

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

yaa that's the issue we are facing. the time and money.

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Omar Elbaga

But the truth is: php just works. It's been running WordPress for decades.

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Orkhan Farmanli

PHP is good. People try too hard to hate PHP while it's getting improved year by year.

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

I am a PHP developer. It's not the language, it's the people not using it as it should be used. The problem lies there only.

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

PHP is cool. Its the people implementing it are with issues. Not doing what should have done.

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Orkhan Farmanli

Exactly.

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tiff

LARGE. They're multi-national and have employees all over the world. Can't count how many tbh as I'm starting on the 15th

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Arswaw

I'm in the same boat, although I start tomorrow.

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tiff

Good luck!!

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Deepak Singh

Small Startup, Eloquent Studio, less than five people. Work is fun and intense.
Being so small in terms of employee size also means everyone has to play multiple roles and keep the shit together always.

Appreciation from client and other members just make it more awesome.

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Shad Mirza

I can understand, I'm also in a similar situation. On paper, I'm front-end developer but in actual, I'm making the backend, APIs, workflow. I even did the UI work of two apps.

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Sm0ke • Edited

Startup. One man show.

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Jaimie Carter

Whats your startup?

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Sm0ke

appseed.us/
Automation, Dev Tools, Boilerplates.

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Jaimie Carter

Wow. That's a really cool idea. How are you coming running this? Does it keep you super busy?

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Sm0ke

We write over & over the same piece of code among projects.
IMHO, we need to automate at least this layer.

On top of providing stable & tested boilerplates with UI integrated, I have some tools to parse and convert Plain HTML themes to javascript, Python or Php apps.

I'm researching a lot to make this happen.
A lot of R&D involved but is challenging & rewarding.

Is 24/7 job :)

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Elliot

2! This summer my friend and I are making websites for clients, and writing some interactive articles.

We just finished our second client website, which went really well. We loved working with the website's owner and had a great time working with them.

Writing articles is really exciting and difficult. It's such an open ended task, I'm learning a lot about taking a creative project from start to end within a small team.

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Emma Goto 🍙

I saw you interned at Google, are you planning on going back to working at a company or do you think you want to continue on with freelancing?

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Elliot • Edited

This question is something I'm trying to figure out myself. I'm not sure I have any concrete thoughts on it yet. I still have to finish university.

Sorry for the somewhat vapid response lol. Let me get back to you.

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sourabh2k15

I interned at Yahoo! last summer in the Sunnyvale office. It's at least 7000 people crammed in those 5 buildings with a central cafe. I used to eat all 3 meals at the office, best experience ever! I met some amazing engineers, learned a lot and had a blast. My team was 20 people which was a subdivision of 100 on a single floor with open office layout which helped me interact with all team members and gather information for my tasks. We used to play foosball everyday and go out for team lunches etc

They also have the bay just behind the office and I would go for a walk on the trail frequently. Yahoo! ( then Oath and now Verizon Media division ) has a strong engineering culture.

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Niko Heikkilä

12 years old startup that has grown into a 50+ employee strong company completely owned by a large payment solutions company Nets.

Oh yeah, there's a huge amount of legacy code from the last decade. It will never go away easily.