For me the eye opener is working with actual owners of the company that is profitable, is constantly growing, offers an honest product that is designed to provi

For me the eye opener is working with actual owners of the company that is profitable, is constantly growing, offers an honest product that is designed to provide maximum value to clients. We literally have no marketing and have to turn down clients because we can't grow fast enough. No politics, just pure honesty and problem solving. I will probably never again want to work for the company where the management has to please a lot of other people, make suboptimal (read: "stupid") decisions just for the optics of it and where there are no people you can talk to that have absolute decision power and the only goal being the good of the company.