I also think this is also industry dependent -- sometimes you just wanna work at a small company that prints money, with a boring tech stack, say ROR, Golang -

I also think this is also industry dependent -- sometimes you just wanna work at a small company that prints money, with a boring tech stack, say ROR, Golang -- but doing interesting work. compared to big company where it's a lot of custom tooling, then other people bringing the latest and greatest tech to enhance their resumes or profile of the company through tech talks etc. end of day -- it's finding what works for you.