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

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Sami Nazari

We're just 65, and we are only 20 in our office!

Feels nice, because this isn't a tech company, and I do everything on my own, which is somehow good and bad ;)

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Ross Henderson

My new job has less than 50 people in it. Split into 4 areas: .Net, Oracle, Technical, Business/Product.

I was in a company before that had 1200+ people in it, and my team was almost the size of this company. And I can say I am much, much happier at this new job. I know half the people's names already whereas before I didn't even know half my team's name.

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Muhammad Arslan Aslam

We are 11 in total and 2 coming in next week. It's a fun, small workplace. Everybody (almost) knows what others are working on. We can help each other better. Conversations on tea time are really fun and entertaining.

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Antonio Radovcic

My company has around 3500 people across lots of countries.
In Germany we're 220, and where I am in Munich we're 80 people. Most are Java consultants/developers.
We work in project-teams of 5-15 people, usually in our office. Sometimes we travel for workshops with clients, but since having kids I reduced travelling to a minimum (only for conferences or company-get-togethers).
Work can get a bit repetitive at times, but it's possible to switch projects after some time, especially when something new is coming up.
We don't have on-call and work/tasks are estimated pretty well usually, so work-life-balance is excellent (I think I had to do overtime twice or three times im my eight years here).

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Shannon Crabill

Large. As in 300k employees globally.

Overall, it's good. With a large company, you can feel a little lost, like just employee number 123, but my team/department is relatively small is which nice.

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Desi • Edited

We're a small, remote-first company of 25 or so. 10 in support, 9 in dev/design, and the rest in biz/comms/marketing!

Very cozy, easy communication, and Slack/Basecamp/Github for easy communication and project tracking.

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Tom VanAntwerp

Between 30 and 40 (depending on whether it's intern season). But we're not specifically a software company, so in terms of developers...well, it's basically just me. I like working somewhere small enough to know everyone. I don't like being the only developer--it's isolating and hurts my ability to grow my skills.

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Ricky Januari

3 people. A Small startup :D

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MΓ©dΓ©ric Burlet

For my part I work in a IT service startup Pixium Digital and we are about 10 in our Singapore office and opening a new office with 3-4 people in Nice, France. Having worked in a big company before I was tired of all the politics and huge chain of commands which sometimes can leave you stuck waiting for days. Working in this startup has been an amazing experience!

  • Got to learn a lot of new tech as everyone has to contributes on projects
  • Had the chance to learn many new things since we work in many different areas of IT
  • Having open space offices eases communication ( I can talk to my boss directly)
  • We can easily organize company events where everyone can come and space isn't limited. (try hosting 300 people events at a restaurant)
  • My boss is always open to new ideas which makes it easy to suggest trying new things.
  • One of the things I love the most is if I show interest and dedication my boss will not hesitate to try and ask more of me. (giving me my own team, project etc)

Startups are always tricky as the atmosphere can be either very toxic or very amazing. But for my part I am very happy I decided to travel half the world to be in Singapore at Pixium Digital.

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Mitch Stanley

I work for isev we're a small UK agency (Less than 15) and it's pretty great.

I get to work on all sides of development including server, back end and front end. We mostly do client work but we have a few of our own internal projects as well. We have a central office but also a few people that work remotely, too.

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Ana Liza Pandac • Edited

I work in a product startup. We are about 20-30 people in the company and almost all are from different countries.

It's fun working here. I met a lot of people with cultures that are different than mine. Their way of thinking is different like how they approach problems and come up with possible solutions. Even the behaviour as well, working with them taught me a lot of things. I have to adapt and be flexible which helped me a lot in growing professionally and personally.

It's an amazing opportunity to be able to work with them 😊

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Gualtiero Frigerio

70 people, and the specific project I work on is made by 5 people. I've worked in larger teams in the past (50/100 developers) and I prefer working on smaller teams. At the moment I'm the sole iOS developer in the company, and I get to work on some stuff on the backend in Python and I help the colleague working on Android as well, and I act as a PM for some customers. This is something harder to achieve in a bigger company, where you usually focus on one aspect of the product and have other people responsible for QA and dealing with customers. I can see the big picture here, and I always have a say in meaningful architectural changes to our platform. The only thing I miss is code review, working with other developers with similar skills helps a lot because you can always learn something from a coworker, while here I'm the only one knowing ObjC and Swift so nobody is contributing to my code base.

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Sagar

We're 17 people team. 7 frontend developers, 6 backend developers, 2 testers, 2 product managers.

Its startup company.

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Shad Mirza

It's a startup with 9 people in total. 3 people in tech team:
My senior => He is leading the team and working on websites, mostly php work.
Me => RN developer taking care of all the mobile application development.
My colleague => she is a junior backend developer, she is making the APIs. I'm currently instructing her in that work.
So yeah, it's fun but there is too much workload.

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Fernando Doglio

I work for a company of around 9k people world-wide. Only 450 in my country though, which I rarely see, since I work mostly remote from my house.