[Xiaoxi]

Originally Posted by Verbiage

If you wanna know, first corporation was Inovalon, second/current one is Comcast.

Herndon / Reston?


I recently "graduated" from a small company to a very large corporation...you can probably guess.

The small company was a great foot in the door opportunity for me and I loved working with the people there. Most of them I still keep in touch / hang out with. The work environment was very flexible / autonomous which I prefer. But as others have mentioned, the pay was well below industry standard. I was fine with it for a time considering it to be a fair deal for getting valuable training / experience, but they never had the financial management to afford raises. Sadly, it went under new management last year and has been falling apart. I saw the signs and got out of there.

Been at the new job for a few months and love it. All the stories about bureaucracy is true, but not something I directly suffer from..for now. Aside from that, the team I'm working with is awesome. My bosses are great people, and one of them is a German car guy...nuff said lol. My teammates are very self driven and have excellent work ethics. I feel like I will learn a lot from them and come out on a whole nother level. Can't complain.

Overall...the quality of the people really affects how much I like my jobs. I have a side job for a very small firm and the people are not as pleasant to deal with, but at least it's completely remote.

[Verbiage]

Originally Posted by Xiaoxi

Herndon / Reston?

Inovalon was actually Columbia, MD, and Comcast is in Timonium.

[Alfisti]

I work for a smaller company with 40 FTE's and 200+ part time call centre staff.

The lack of red tape and general corporate BS is refreshing, you just get on with your job rather than being bogged down in silly meetings or HR presentations or garbage like environmental policies or mission statements. We just get on with it.

Only real downside is budget, often tough to push through big projects quickly as you're always watching the dollars and cents very, very closely.

[Whostheboss]

Originally Posted by Capt Crunch

Small company, 100%. A small company:

1. Is typically growing. This means more opportunities for advancement
2. Wants to attract talent since it can't afford to have dead weight. This means higher wages, better people, and better management.

I wish #2 was true for me.

[Whostheboss]

Mods please delete

[ojoseph]

Big ones , i think they ensure continuity and well known

[EALm4]

I just accepted an offer for a "smaller" company... wasnt really looking to change jobs just yet but the pay and benefits were outstanding.

I'm going from a firm that has 50K employees to one that has roughly 15K. Granted I think smaller in terms of employees but possibly just as competitive footprint within the industry.

I guess the rest is TBD

[Whostheboss]

Moderators please delete this thread. Thanks

[Whostheboss]

@Jason

[NEFARIOUS]

Big companies: All the amenities (e.g. good health insurance especially since we're forced into Obamacare), perks (I had a temp position for a major communications company in CA and they have a pool hall, catered lunch, and free snacks, depending on which central office; and another insurance company that had brand new equipment in a beautiful high-rise that had an onsite chef, an 80" LED TV, table tennis and yet another pool table), but more people = more bullcrap (such as strict performance requirements), and you better either talk a big game, know someone, or know your shit super well to get in.

Small companies: They can be either the most chill of people or the most dogmatic mofo's you've ever met. NEVER work for an Asian company; they micromanage everything (I've worked for plenty and it's all very brutal; hardly anybody socializes and they'd rather it be dead silent than to play at least smooth jazz or SOMETHING, all for as little as they can get away with paying in wages).

But then again, I'm very cynical working the typical job scene.

[Whostheboss]

Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS

Big companies: All the amenities (e.g. good health insurance especially since we're forced into Obamacare), perks (I had a temp position for a major communications company in CA and they have a pool hall, catered lunch, and free snacks, depending on which central office; and another insurance company that had brand new equipment in a beautiful high-rise that had an onsite chef, an 80" LED TV, table tennis and yet another pool table), but more people = more bullcrap (such as strict performance requirements), and you better either talk a big game, know someone, or know your shit super well to get in.

Small companies: They can be either the most chill of people or the most dogmatic mofo's you've ever met. NEVER work for an Asian company; they micromanage everything (I've worked for plenty and it's all very brutal; hardly anybody socializes and they'd rather it be dead silent than to play at least smooth jazz or SOMETHING, all for as little as they can get away with paying in wages).

But then again, I'm very cynical working the typical job scene.

Lol. I've never worked for an Asian company but i know and have worked for some Asians, I didn't have any issues with them

[M3 Number 86]

Originally Posted by fecurtis

I've worked for both big and small companies. I much prefer start ups, people are much more driven to see the company succeed.

With big companies, it's sad how many people just don't give a shit, they're just obsessed with following a process and keeping in guidelines instead of taking a step back and trying to contribute to the success of the company.

THATS THE WORST THPE OF WORKER 10000000000%.

[M3 Number 86]

Originally Posted by Xiaoxi

Herndon / Reston?


I recently "graduated" from a small company to a very large corporation...you can probably guess.

The small company was a great foot in the door opportunity for me and I loved working with the people there. Most of them I still keep in touch / hang out with. The work environment was very flexible / autonomous which I prefer. But as others have mentioned, the pay was well below industry standard. I was fine with it for a time considering it to be a fair deal for getting valuable training / experience, but they never had the financial management to afford raises. Sadly, it went under new management last year and has been falling apart. I saw the signs and got out of there.

Been at the new job for a few months and love it. All the stories about bureaucracy is true, but not something I directly suffer from..for now. Aside from that, the team I'm working with is awesome. My bosses are great people, and one of them is a German car guy...nuff said lol. My teammates are very self driven and have excellent work ethics. I feel like I will learn a lot from them and come out on a whole nother level. Can't complain.

Overall...the quality of the people really affects how much I like my jobs. I have a side job for a very small firm and the people are not as pleasant to deal with, but at least it's completely remote.

Report back in a year. It'll get old once you try to get things done and changed. The only thing good about being at a big company and getting paid is leverage on salary when you decide to go back to a smaller company.