I just joined a big tech after 10 years in startups and honestly it just requires quite different set of skills. Grass is always greener, so there is just a tr

I just joined a big tech after 10 years in startups and honestly it just requires quite different set of skills. Grass is always greener, so there is just a trade-off on both sides in terms of various vectors like money, culture, stakeholders, scope of work etc. Now what I also always felt that in startups I just didn't learn things that I also needed to, to become a better PM. For instance, in our $50m ARR company we ran production-driven development, no tests and very autonomous structure until the company hit around 100 employees and started shifting. In the company that I joined - we have around 1000x microservices and my product touches around 25 squads that I need to get approval before we even ship a single change. Is it bad? No, its just different. But the only way to know is to try it. I always thought startups are cooler but now I am humbled to admit that I was also missing learnings from BigCo's like management, structure, async writing of documentation etc. and I kind of enjoy it!