Having done it at both big companies and startups... honestly, the startup version is more interesting. Higher stakes, more resourcefulness required, more swear

Having done it at both big companies and startups... honestly, the startup version is more interesting. Higher stakes, more resourcefulness required, more swearing, and more camaraderie. The incidents I've been a part of in big company contexts have been pretty undramatic - tons of focus on keeping emotions muted, carefully unpeeling the onion, and then carefully sequencing mitigations and repairs.