> At large companies, you often end up working on a tiny piece of a module, and then you work you way up. You don't learn much that way. At large companies, yo

> At large companies, you often end up working on a tiny piece of a module, and then you work you way up. You don't learn much that way. At large companies, you end up working on a stack written by someone out of college 10 years ago when the company was a startup, cursing them and wondering wtf they were thinking. :-) Maybe the learning there is a meta-lesson instead of some direct technology. Understanding that a large codebase has a life of its own; how to resist rewriting stuff if it doesn't benefit the business; how to test legacy code; etc.