Here's a post I wrote about my experience as an individual contributor moving from Google to a smaller organization. https://corbt.com/posts/2017/10/28/small-c

Here's a post I wrote about my experience as an individual contributor moving from Google to a smaller organization. https://corbt.com/posts/2017/10/28/small-companies-and-the-presumption-of-competence.html https://corbt.com/posts/2017/10/28/small-companies-and-the-p... TL;DR is that I feel much more productive in the smaller company, in large part because there were SO MANY stakeholders at Google that it took a very long time to decide on a course and move forward with it. I think that experience probably generalizes to most large organizations.