I'm d’accord with that. I think many comments here have a misconception of efficiency versus flexibility. For me it breaks down to: - Big companies are: More e

I'm d’accord with that. I think many comments here have a misconception of efficiency versus flexibility. For me it breaks down to: - Big companies are: More efficient but less flexible - Small startups are: Less efficient but more flexible Big companies are more efficient because every employee has a narrow field of responsibilities. They are dedicated to just a few tasks and can leveradge from focusing their minds on just one thing (e.g. a web developer who is just responsible for programming his mobule). Compared to a small inefficient startup, were every employee has a broad spectrum of responsibilities and needs to refocus his mind often (e.g. a web developer who has not only programming tasks, but also system administration, setup/deployement, UI design, customer support and cleaning the coffee machine and fixing the printer). Small startups are more flexible because everybody can directly give new ideas to the boss, everybody has knowledge about the whole company and how everything is tied together and changes to processes or infrastructure can easily be adopted. I think this situation is not a bad thing. Big companies and small startups live in symbiosis. Startups are flexible enough to produce new innovations. Then they either grow big (implement processes, standards, hierarchies, etc.) or get acquired by a big company. However, big companies are not flexible enough to produce new innovations but they have the resources to found spin-offs / create new startups.