Speaking more pragmatically, larger companies are much more family friendly - people guard their personal lives fiercely at large companies. At least, this is m

Speaking more pragmatically, larger companies are much more family friendly - people guard their personal lives fiercely at large companies. At least, this is my experience at an 80,000+ employee company. You're basically a huge asshole if you book a meeting at 3pm because you'll make all the moms and dads late for picking up their kids. And you can't book any meetings before 10am because more often than not, it's tough to get everyone in earlier because they have to drop their kids off. Aside from that, new parents are often glued to their phones waiting for updates from whoever is taking care of their children. They are not fully engaged in meetings and I often watch their attention drift to the daycare nanny cam. I have a coworker who receives hourly updates from her mother who is taking care of her young child. Sure enough, every hour there is something that needs to be corrected and thus, a 15 min phone call ensues. So here I am, a single software developer, who has to wait a week for our sprint planning meeting because everyone else on the team has put up roadblocks that prevent it from happening. I literally will sit here this week doing nothing because of this. This is a regular occurrence. This isn't a complaint really, I will want these same luxuries when I am a parent, but I can't help but notice that 90% of my team would really rather be elsewhere.