Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?
I'm a Dev Manager but started as a mid-senior developer at my current company (now about 350 people). We grew a lot by acquisition and one thing I noticed was many "cultural silos" that made it hard to build a shared, unifying identity. Myself and another developer worked to try and address this with a lot of small things focused on cutting across teams & groups: a book club-style bi-weekly discussion, "Tech Talks" from across the teams to diverse audiences, some hackathons and making online conferences (MS, AWS, Google, Etc) into company events. Literally things that "make people spend time with people outside their direct team". It's been pretty successful and pushed lots of new initiatives in some unexpected areas.<p>So my advice would be to look for a broader area where you see a gap or failing, and then look for ways to address this that don't need a huge investment of people or resources; guerilla activities FTW! If you can show some success, you can then pursue as appropriate/desired...