[tjr]

One possible solution is to find a reasonably isolated, independent small group within a company. For example, groups that make custom software tools that other people in the company use can be more interesting, perhaps, than the main stuff the company works on.

[MrHeartBroken]

So is this a common thing at big corporations? For instance, I was mid-process at Google but was not in a position to go wait to see where it goes. Then you hear about a story on HN about how the dl.google.com server was shitty and would take 24 hours to boot and was full of bugs.