> 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 (di

> 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.