Personal enjoyment can take many forms and people have more than one priority in life. Big corps can also have their upsides aside from tech and process related

Personal enjoyment can take many forms and people have more than one priority in life. Big corps can also have their upsides aside from tech and process related questions that might be attractive. While I have my pet peeves that would hinder progress, I personally don't really care about a particular stack enough to get invested. If I'm too concerned with that aspect that would imply that I'm not working on the interesting part of the problem anyway. You can handle a lot of restrictions if the domain/problem is interesting enough and the constraints put on you don't feel too taxing, e.g. because they aren't enforced for your role or team very much. I feel like company size just isn't a good indicator for personal enjoyment/growth/$whatever, lots of research oriented divisions in larger corporations will let you work on interesting topics and hand off the engineering part to teams with people that enjoy that particular aspect of our world, both working for the same company.