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I think there's another issue. At a small company, everyone (usually) has a stake. Everyone wants to make the company succeed, because having the company succee
by buff-a 15y ago
I think there's another issue. At a small company, everyone (usually) has a stake. Everyone wants to make the company succeed, because having the company succeed gives each individual a huge payout.
Beyond a certain size, however, new individuals will not receive huge payouts if the company succeeds. The strategies by which they maximize their individual return now involve politics, power and control. Short of killing the company, their reward is maximized by behavior which may hurt the company (and in my view always hurts the company but I'm bitter). An example of such behavior are putting forward tech ideas which may not fit the company but which the individual has had experience, and therefor has seniority and status. Another would be eliminating competition with bad reviews, or failing to acknowledge good work.
Beyond a certain size (perhaps its beyond a certain time) a company will be managed by "players" using the company for their own purposes. Non-players are identified and eliminated. These players don't really care if you can get the job done, they just want large departments to manage. In fact hiring idiots whose job depends on the player's good graces is a great way to balance intelligent people with legitimate complaints.
No. Wont be working at a large company again.
- pagekalisedown 15y agoYou just gave me a flashback to Lucasarts, circa 5 years ago.
- iam 15y agoI worked at a 100+ person startup that exhibited the same behavior. So, sorry, but this isn't exclusive to large companies.
- gcp 15y ago>100+ person startup No.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI guess it's all subjective, but 100+ employees sounds big to me.
- dj_axl 15y ago> No. Wont be working at a large company again. Agreed, although in my case it's more "Will be checking reviews on Glassdoor.com before working at any company, large or small." Unfortunately the "players" have infiltrated Glassdoor as well and you have to suss out the "real" reviews from the "player" reviews.
- scas 15y agoGlassdoor's moderation policies also filter out a lot of negative reviews, so you never really see the full picture
- jedberg 15y ago> The strategies by which they maximize their individual return now involve politics, power and control. The problem is you are working with people who want to maximize their return -- they aren't interested in the problem at hand. When I do hiring, I'm looking for people who are interested in the problem, interesting in making the product better. As long as the money is "good enough", they don't really care about the payout. They just want to solve hard problems. Once you find those, you get a lot less of the politics.