I worked at two Fortune 500 (> 50,000 people) public companies and now work at a medium-small sized private company (~500 people). I prefer medium-small company

I worked at two Fortune 500 (> 50,000 people) public companies and now work at a medium-small sized private company (~500 people). I prefer medium-small company. Also - what number would be small? like < 100? The only advantage to large companies is if there is a large presence in your area, moving internally between jobs is relatively easy if you want to change things up. Advantages of small company: - Privately owned so no stockholder BS or the constant downsizing/offshoring accounting games. - Most time-wasting corporate stuff is very minimal at a small company. At large corp you could spend hours upon hours doing the mandatory annual security training which ironically required Flash installed to run the big brother tracking video course. Same for ethics, HR and other corporate-y trainings. - No real politics. Large corp it was common to run into people that didn't contribute anything to the products/solutions. It appeared they existed to slow things down and act out Dilbert comic strips. This can really wear on you. Watch the movie Office Space. - Want to try a new tech out? Talk with a couple people, give it a whirl - it has to have some purpose though. Large corp: "no, we use XYZ, we've always used XYZ"