[spacemadness]

As I’ve moved into bigger companies over my career, I’ve become more held back by the processes in place and I am certainly way less effective than I could be. Code reviews take longer, there are political games to play and far too many meetings, managers want you writing lots of excess documentation for documentations sake instead of coding, spending lots of time on peer review discussions of those useless documents where the reviewers nitpick just to leave comments for their performance reviews, needing to jump through multiple layers of sign-offs from stakeholders for simple changes, etc. I mean, yes, small teams without that cruft will be more effective for the most part. I will probably move back to working for smaller companies soon and it will be a relief.