Tools you’d miss if you left a company
Not everyone finds BigCorp problems to be the interesting problems. Not everyone wants to live in the Bay Area. There&#x27;s a lot of jobs in the world that aren&#x27;t at FAANG, and it&#x27;s okay if the right job for someone is at a place whose entire dev shop is smaller than the team at Google that maintains Blaze. If you find yourself in a job like that, it is absolutely the right call to invest in the best commodity tools you can (where best is a local, not a global, maxima) and focus on the things you can do that add value to your org.