This isn’t the case but your statement is true all the same. Smaller shops engineers DO do everything which is valuable at a small shop but is not valued at al

This isn’t the case but your statement is true all the same. Smaller shops engineers DO do everything which is valuable at a small shop but is not valued at all at a large shop because it doesn’t scale. Once you’re working at scale different values surface like being able to communicate and drive consensus, focus on one (high impact) thing, and do higher leverage work. When I went from small-co to big-co I also didn’t understand what others valued and I languished a little trying to do all the things. Now I’m in the groove and look back at how much easier it was to just do all the things.