Working at a big company is different from working at a small one, and you say yours is "massive." Big companies have to comply with basically all the laws and

Working at a big company is different from working at a small one, and you say yours is "massive." Big companies have to comply with basically all the laws and regulations -- some of which were written to apply only to them -- and their "target customer" is often everyone in the world. So you can't skip many steps in the checklist. Trademark searches, i18n, l10n, a11y, privacy, data retention, UXR... they deal with all sorts of stuff that little companies defer because they haven't found their product-market fit yet or are willing to risk annihilation if they get caught skirting a regulation. Even if this doesn't affect you directly, the process sets the company tempo. If you don't take that into account, you might feel like you've inexplicably switched to the slow side of bullet time. Find a coworker you respect but don't report to, and ask how you're doing on the terms that you're concerned about. Either you'll find out you're just fine, or you'll get practical tips to wade faster through the quicksand of big-company process.