>You're joining to become one extra cog in a large machine that is past its prime. yada yada >You will have little agency and impact, and your only opportunit

>You're joining to become one extra cog in a large machine that is past its prime. yada yada >You will have little agency and impact, and your only opportunity for a decent compensation will be based on internal politics rather than technical merit. Yes, you have little impact (unless you go up on the ladder), but you're working on products that serve the whole world. That's quite a few order of magnitude more than working in yet another startup creating web-shop or niche app. I'm not even at FAANG level of corpos and I really can say that I'm putting tiny bricks into really interesting products. The work itself is pretty boring, but products as a whole are impressive as hell. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that corpos are great and startups sucks, but when you're talking about companies that hire 50k, 100k, 200k or more people and just call them places where you're just "cog" and there's nothing exciting about the job then I think you're just naive