I have worked at two big companies (8k+ and 500k+ Employees) in my life and it is sad, but I can confirm. If you want, you can get by amazingly with very little

I have worked at two big companies (8k+ and 500k+ Employees) in my life and it is sad, but I can confirm. If you want, you can get by amazingly with very little effort there. As long as you get attention for your work, you will stay. In investment banking (my roommate works there) people call it 'face time'. They stay in the office late to get in facetime. I hate the concept of it, but sadly it is true. 2 ways to succeed at huge companies - do work they can't ignore (at one of the companies I was, I was doing Business Dev work and I outperformed my peers by 200x - I was able to chill a lot visibly after a couple of big deals, but I still succeeded due to performance) - do average or below average work, but communicate it great and get in 'face time' without actually doing something.