>feels like several small-corps (~100) in practice due to divisional structure, even the lowest employee is only 5-6 steps from the CEO. I worked for a med-cor

>feels like several small-corps (~100) in practice due to divisional structure, even the lowest employee is only 5-6 steps from the CEO. I worked for a med-corp (~3000 people) that was like this because they had spent 10 years growing by acquiring other companies, but had done a poor job of really integrating all these disparate products/teams. One of the best parts of that job was that every org was very different. Some were legacy products that ran on maintenance revenue and technical support. Others were fast paced and were focused on the product/engineering team improving the product. Some orgs had "hero" culture where people would rather put out a fire than prevent it. I met lots of different people, got to see and work with a lot of different perspectives, and learned a lot. As you said, there were plenty of great people with 10+ years of experience who were 10X multipliers on my own education. The company eventually paid for their inability to integrate these products and teams by getting acquired by a private equity firm. It was fun while it lasted!