Which large companies have you worked for? I&#x27;ve worked in both environments and seen way more failed projects on the enterprise side.<p>However when an enterprise ships something, the shipped product tends to be more stable. There&#x27;s tradeoffs to be made and large companies often prioritize stability and their reputation over time to market and spending money.<p>As a startup, I would look for people who have less specialized experience and are able to cover as many of my bases as possible. Can the developer field a page at 2am and login to the production environment to fix a problem? Can the developer help my sales people with a desktop support issue while the lone IT guy is on vacation? Can the developer make the product work on a single AWS micro instances until we get some sort of traction&#x2F;funding?<p>The theme here is a scrappy, do-whatever-it-takes mindset that&#x27;s often missing in the enterprise where people learn to CYA lest the bureaucracy come down on them for cutting corners.