> The two things I really like about working for smaller places or starting a company is you get very direct access to users and customers and their problems I

> The two things I really like about working for smaller places or starting a company is you get very direct access to users and customers and their problems I don’t understand this at all. Big companies have lots of individual projects, where engineers get direct access to customers. At my big co, we all watch every App Store review come in, conduct thousands of interviews with customers and have a direct say on what gets built.