Similar story here and agreed, well said. Where I started, I was one of two developers at small-medium sized business. Because of the needs of the business, t

Similar story here and agreed, well said. Where I started, I was one of two developers at small-medium sized business. Because of the needs of the business, there wasn't a lot of need for more developers so room for advancement wasn't there, nor was there a need to expand my skills beyond what the day to day job required of me. The projects I worked on were very siloed as well. Moving to a larger company with many teams of developers forced me to expand not only my technical skills, but my soft skills as well. Being able to work with many different team members, as well as across teams and with different business units forced me to improve skills that I didn't have the opportunity/need to improve on at my old job.