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There are people who only work at 2-10 person companies, and thrive there. They have a diverse skillset. They can work quickly and produce lean, malleable software. They wear a lot of hats. They take a lot of equity compensation (sometimes wisely, sometimes not).

I am one of those people. I always struggled at 100 person, 200 person companies. Fights with C-levels, struggles with HR, breaking through silos to make things happen.

You can't make things happen at a 200 person company like you can at a 5 person company. You can't have the conversations. You can't pivot on a dime.

I've embraced who I am and what I'm good at, and it's increased my happiness to a huge degree.