I worked as an student at a fortune 500 company, and the amount of work they had us doing was pitiful. We were capable of so much more, but they had a need for people to do manual testing / bug fixing. As a result, the amount of actual code I wrote in the 16 months I was there was next to nothing.
On the flip side, I now work at a start up company. In probably the first two weeks, I wrote more code. I'm given much more responsibility and they have much higher expectations from me. I'm fully capable of doing what they need out of me, it's just that they're asking for it where the F500 wasn't.
I'd say the biggest difference is the bureaucracy. At an F500, they have to go through hoops to do things, talk to many different people in many different departments, etc. Part of that was simply due to the size of the operation. In a small start up, things just get done. There's so much less overhead in anything that you can turn over things so much quicker.
1337coder on October 9th, 2017 at 22:38 UTC »
Also just got hired at a F500. Wouldn't mind some of this "training" he speaks of.
dnew on October 10th, 2017 at 00:01 UTC »
I wonder what people do who get hired to work for Stack Overflow.
TehLittleOne on October 10th, 2017 at 02:37 UTC »
I worked as an student at a fortune 500 company, and the amount of work they had us doing was pitiful. We were capable of so much more, but they had a need for people to do manual testing / bug fixing. As a result, the amount of actual code I wrote in the 16 months I was there was next to nothing.
On the flip side, I now work at a start up company. In probably the first two weeks, I wrote more code. I'm given much more responsibility and they have much higher expectations from me. I'm fully capable of doing what they need out of me, it's just that they're asking for it where the F500 wasn't.
I'd say the biggest difference is the bureaucracy. At an F500, they have to go through hoops to do things, talk to many different people in many different departments, etc. Part of that was simply due to the size of the operation. In a small start up, things just get done. There's so much less overhead in anything that you can turn over things so much quicker.