Ask: What Are You Experiences as a Manager at Small, Medium, and Large Companies
I&#x27;ve had experience working at both small, medium and large companies and &quot;better&quot; is subjective.<p>At larger organizations, mostly what you say is accurate with the bureaucracy and the pressure to deliver things impossibly quick.<p>At small&#x2F;medium organizations, there was a lack of documentation and proper process. Everything moved quite rapidly but decisions were being made without prior consultation.<p>Mentorship can work in various forms (formal and informal) in both small and large companies. I&#x27;ve also come to believe that there are no realistic deadlines for anything other than if you set them yourself. With the entire organization moving at rapid pace, it almost requires senior leadership to accept take a step back and breathe a little.<p>Meetings are mostly useless but I found meetings at large organizations with a proper project manager, someone who is strong and keeps everyone on the ball, enforcing next steps etc. is such a critical component to not wasting time. That and having longer meetings&#x2F;workshops to really talk through all the details as opposed to 30 minutes catch up everyday that involves multiple context switches.<p>In both small and large organizations, I&#x27;ve found that the productivity killer is trying to do too much that ends being nothing gets done at all.