I'm at a startup that works with big enterprisey customers, maybe 50% of the time I have a ton of freedom and "agility", and the other half of the time it's lik

I'm at a startup that works with big enterprisey customers, maybe 50% of the time I have a ton of freedom and "agility", and the other half of the time it's like what you describe. Just insanely frustrating and painful. And because our customers know us as being agile, there's a huge double standard to all of it. We can request changes, or even write all the code for them and send it, but won't see it live for 3-12 months. Even for critical bugs. However, when they request anything for our services, features require like a 1 month deadline from conception to deployment, and critical bugs is something like 72 hours. A little ranty because 2016 for me was more like 90% "dealing with enterprise", 10% freedom. Thankfully next month I'm being switched to a team dealing more with internal services, so there's a lot less BS (because my boss says he's noticed how stressed it has made me, so that's nice).