[jonKranked]

Large companies == a better hiding place for incompetent arseholes, at least in high tech. I excel at everything and startups let me mix it up any way I want it.

on the flip side, with a startup, one bad decision has a higher potential to sink the whole ship.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

How many?

I see what you did there.

 

[jdcamb]

I might be able to get you a Tugboat Job. Nobody in my Family wants it.

 

[jdcamb]

Many people have thought I may be slightly autistic due to my less-than-ideal social skills and insane ability to remember numbers. True story.

Phugging great now I'm Autistic.....

 

[jimmydean]

Having started my career with 7 years at a "small" company (varying between 150-300 people), to now just over a year at a large, global company (50k+ people)....there's definitely major pros and cons of each. Still unsure which I prefer to be honest.

I tend to prefer the small shops. But like when I was at Arris, it wasn't like I was at Arris except for the deep pockets. They bought nCube for the technology and left the company as a whole alone for the most part. So you had a start-upish mentality with the deep pockets of a fortune 500.

Here it's a smallish company (250ish with about 40% of that in manufacturing and only 20% in engineering) but likes to pretend to be Initech.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Did you accept the job yet or not ffs.

 

[Sandwich]

i did. it's all good.

 

[-BB-]

Congrats, now go get on your bike and get in as many pre-employment rides as you can. Once you start, nose to the grindstone for at least the first 90 days. That is where you make or break it with a new company.