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Ah thanks, it's great hearing your perspective! Interestingly, I think my most recent company fits into that range, they're about 5,000 now I believe. Though o

Ah thanks, it's great hearing your perspective! Interestingly, I think my most recent company fits into that range, they're about 5,000 now I believe. Though only about 1,000 when I joined; even in such a short time the change in culture was pretty hard to miss. And 10,000 just sounds massive to me! Anyways -- it's interesting, there may be companies in that range with cultures that are good TODAY, but you have to have really solid leadership that you can trust to make sure nothing perverse sneaks in TOMORROW, you know? Definitely they are out there, it's just finding them that's the hard part, perhaps (part of me wishes I could help in that crusade, but at that point I'm either joining a 10-person business or starting my own thing I guess, lol)

tboyd47 3y ago
> And 10,000 just sounds massive to me! The smallest company I worked at was 7 people and the largest was 80,000. I like a certain level of professionalism (distance from personal life) in my work, so startups aren't really for me. Past 10,000 people, the entire operation is run by bean counters and nothing you do has any effect on the company's success. > Anyways -- it's interesting, there may be companies in that range with cultures that are good TODAY, but you have to have really solid leadership that you can trust to make sure nothing perverse sneaks in TOMORROW, you know? Definitely they are out there, it's just finding them that's the hard part, perhaps Everything is always changing year by year. You'd be surprised how much can change on a team in three months after a simple change of senior manager.