Allow me to respectfully disagree. Everyone's experience is different, and I don't know what yours is, but I have had several jobs at BIG companies that defy y

Allow me to respectfully disagree. Everyone's experience is different, and I don't know what yours is, but I have had several jobs at BIG companies that defy your rules. I have designed and developed several big multi-million dollar systems at enterprise scale. I am always able to try new things and expand my skills. Almost every company works on "exciting things" (although maybe you define exciting as a web-based project management system and I define exciting as highly-configurable e-commerce platform). This comment is quite narrow minded, actually. Lots of companies, of various sizes, offer exciting and interesting projects with lots of freedom and control to the individual. If yours doesn't, keep looking.