To each his own. The counterpoints to his arguments are easy to make. Inconvenients of working for a big company: 1. You will work too much with people or proc

To each his own. The counterpoints to his arguments are easy to make. Inconvenients of working for a big company: 1. You will work too much with people or processes, as opposed to technology. 2. You will work on code bases that evolve very slowly. Case in point: NTFS is hardly a "state of the art" filesystem: one of the slowest filesystems for workloads reading/writing many small files, 3 years late in delivering TRIM support, no snapshot capabilities like zfs/btrfs, no checksumming of data, probably the last modern desktop file system to support hard links, etc. 3. You will only be a very small part of something (perhaps) important and impactful. 4. It is the easiest way to guarantee you will not be inordinately financially successful (as opposed to being a cofounder or early employee with stock options).