> Thinking your niche skills are solving the "difficult" problems and other skills are easier is not a good attitude. This is one of the biggest obstacles I've

> Thinking your niche skills are solving the "difficult" problems and other skills are easier is not a good attitude. This is one of the biggest obstacles I've encountered when hiring people out of big companies and into smaller startups. At a very big, very established tech company it's easy to focus on your narrow problem and leverage all of the company's infrastructure to get things done. Moreover, you should be leveraging the company's infrastructure and not reinventing the wheel. Some (though not all) of these people struggle to adapt when they move to another company where all of that infrastructure isn't available. Maybe they never had a chance to learn how to do it. Or maybe they've just been convinced that their previous company's infrastructure was the only correct way to do something. Either way, they get stuck in a position where they don't know how to solve problems without their previous company's infrastructure. Best case, they admit the gap in their knowledge and work on filling it as fast as possible. Worst case, they spend years trying to recreate their previous company's big-company infrastructure before they can get started on this new small-company problem that they've been given.