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I think working at a medium sized company that's been around for a while is probably about as good as going to a big company. I mean, in a big company, you're
by DannoHung 16y ago
I think working at a medium sized company that's been around for a while is probably about as good as going to a big company.
I mean, in a big company, you're unlikely to actually know people outside of your immediate working responsibilities, so you don't really get the chance to network across the organization.
Also, I mean, if you don't have any super great ideas... there are worse things to do than help someone implement their idea.
- nostrademons 16y ago(Disclaimer: I work for Google, which is probably a bit atypical as big companies go.) "I mean, in a big company, you're unlikely to actually know people outside of your immediate working responsibilities, so you don't really get the chance to network across the organization." I work in Search Features. Over the past six months, I've been on a rotation with the webserver infrastructure team, and have gotten to work with people working on Google Maps, Doodles, Product Search, Image Search, Chrome, Protobufs, recruiting, UX research, and compilers & build tools. Other big companies probably don't have quite as many cross-functional links, but rotations between groups are quite common, as are groups whose job is to consult across the organization.
- garply 16y agoIn what ways is Google atypical?
- varjag 16y agoThey still did not give up on scaling technical excellence.
- DannoHung 16y agoThe one big company I worked for did not have any cross-functional links. I think it also might be different in software as opposed to other industries. I should have clarified, but I meant a big company whose business was not-software.