If your experience was in Financial Tech, you likely had the very worst experience in "Big Company" you can imagine. I worked at Wells Fargo, where they had la

If your experience was in Financial Tech, you likely had the very worst experience in "Big Company" you can imagine. I worked at Wells Fargo, where they had laughable procedures and couldn't even properly staff teams because they refused to value their tech workers at even a bare minimum. Now I'm at Google and its completely the opposite. A lot of healthy code management behavior, flexibility to design and develop new projects, lower maintenance management etc. In between I ran a startup where I'd like to think I created the most process that was needed and nothing more, while personally managing my engineers by deeply valuing their opinion and only providing them with direction based on product strategy & design.