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I am starting year 6 at my company, which would fit your description of big pond. I'm also painfully aware I'm stagnating. That said, unless I completely chang

I am starting year 6 at my company, which would fit your description of big pond. I'm also painfully aware I'm stagnating. That said, unless I completely change my role and/or specialization, I don't see any room to grow. I'm a frontend engineer with some fullstack mixed in. Going backend would certainly be an interesting change, but it would be at the cost of atrophying frontend skill/knowledge, the end result being it would be harder to get a future FE (atrophy) or BE (beginner/mediocre skillset) job. Especially since companies these days seem to be creating FE specific interview tracks.

koala_man 6y ago
> unless I completely change my role and/or specialization That would be the point, yes. I definitely did not mean to imply that spending 6 years doing the same thing at a big company is in any way better than doing the same at a small company. My point was that since a large company likely does allow you to completely change your role, domain and specialization without quitting, you should look at years-per-role and not years-per-company.