This is very common coming from small shops and moving to larger orgs. I am happy to have started my career gradually going from very small to medium to larger

This is very common coming from small shops and moving to larger orgs. I am happy to have started my career gradually going from very small to medium to larger orgs. I think it's made me a much more well rounded dev. A lot of people that go straight into very large organizations have the disadvantage of narrowly focusing on a piece of software and often their learning is slower because of organizational complexity. At (good) smaller companies you have much more freedom to experiment and make mistakes, which is essential for learning fast.