[yizhang7210]

I've experience very early stage startups and I've experienced medium size (400 dev) company. To be completely honest I don't think these practices are necessarily functions of company or engineering team size.

I'm convinced that there are startups that have good practices and there are big companies that don't (and vice versa), so I'd say it's more about this particular company rather than all companies around that size/location/industry or whatever attribute.

On a practical note, I think you have a few choices. 1. Leave and join a company with better practices. It's a safe choice. 2. Take it as a challenge and be a change agent at the current company. Good practices have value. Teach them. Bring them in. Negotiate with managers and people above, try to convince them to adopt to better practices. This is hard, really hard, but you'll learn a lot from the process, and you'll be a hero at your company if you succeed. 3. Do nothing. Get frustrated and complain. Sink into the same level of mediocre/bad practices just like everyone else. I don't recommend this one.