Felt the same at an org (~$30B) I worked at (non-faang). Ended up leaving after two years, did a startup (greenfield/build whatever for mvp, fun/learned a lot/s

Felt the same at an org (~$30B) I worked at (non-faang). Ended up leaving after two years, did a startup (greenfield/build whatever for mvp, fun/learned a lot/sweat-equity) that didn't succeed, broke, got back into regular job. For me it was the SDLC part... as in a seemingly small feature would take 2 weeks to get done because you needed to: create a TDD read me that described what you were going to do, how, unit tests involved, side effects, etc... then write the code, unit tests, PR, write more integration testing, PR... get it into a package to be released. But later on I realized that is standard/how to maintain large applications. Also the other thing that is not as fun is your job is very small/specific I found at the first place I was at. I didn't touch the build pipeline, didn't work with containers, I just wrote front end code basically.