My experience working with large companies is that the work can be boring, non challenging and with lots of politics. That said, if you know how to work within

My experience working with large companies is that the work can be boring, non challenging and with lots of politics. That said, if you know how to work within the rules of their game, you don't have to work that hard, make easy steady money and still be considered a great employee. My theory is that good coders tend to be awful at office politics, so we suffer more than necessary when bounded to the inflexible rules at large companies. I learned to handle that from manager who couldn't code his way out of a paper bag, but really understood people. Someone should come up with an office politics for dummies.. and this would be my first entry: nobody can treat you like shit unless you allow them too. (feel free to add your own entries ) :)