Throwing in my 2c as I've worked at massive fortune 100 companies and took a shift to work for small businesses. The top comment about you eat what you kill in

Throwing in my 2c as I've worked at massive fortune 100 companies and took a shift to work for small businesses. The top comment about you eat what you kill in small business is the mantra. It's frightening to think if you don't perform, the risk isn't about not getting a raise, it's the company going under/firings will happen, now you need a job, other very bad stuff. This pressure forces you to be efficient, slacking off isn't an option and would be quite visible. Shit wouldn't get done. Working at the large companies this was never a fear, if you performed above average (even probably average) your job was likely safe. The cost to hire, train, get someone plugged into the ridiculous amount of systems, assigned hardware, you name it is very high. Benefits are generally better as well because economies of scale, neat discounted stock options, etc. This probably opens the door to less efficient day-to-day stuff taking place (sometimes). It's not cut and dry though, but I'm glad to have experienced both and am always open to either. Startup culture right now is super appealing personally because the whole Jobs' "Be Hungry" thing, age, mobility, etc but I'd imagine once you have a family to take care priorities and risk analysis is recalibrated which is cool too. Please note that I'm not saying having a family or working at large corporation the worker is less efficient it just might have less ramifications because of the structure.