Comment by jvanderbot

Its almost an everyday song that I hear, that big companies are full of hundreds or thousands of employees doing nothing.

I think sometimes the definition of work gets narrowed to a point so infinitesimal that everyone but the speaker is just a lazy nobody.

There was an excellent article on here about working at enterprise scale. My experience has been similar. You get to do work that feels really real, almost like school assignments with instant feedback and obvious rewards when you're at a small company. When I worked at big companies it all felt like bullshit until I screwed it up and a senator was interested in "Learning more" (for example).

The last few 9s are awful hard to chase down and a lot of the steps of handling edge case failures or features are extremely manual.