The more correct rule is that you should try to find companies that have closely aligned business and technology objectives (which I haven&#x27;t found outside of finance and the usual SV companies in the F500), but I have my doubts even that is the case because I&#x27;m working for a large organization that meets this criteria and I&#x27;d never think of advising a young, ambitious recent graduate to even reply to a recruiter for this place given the horrifically bad budget situation. Just because business leaders want something and try in earnest to plan for it doesn&#x27;t mean much if they don&#x27;t have the resources and momentum to execute.<p>A good example of what I mean are large, innovation-less companies with &quot;start-up in a large company&quot; efforts to bring themselves some relevance that almost always become the worst of large company inertia &#x2F; legacy with the fiscal and market position disadvantages of start-ups. I&#x27;ve been through at least 4 of these efforts with varying degrees of &quot;success.&quot; And while they&#x27;re a large part of my career and I want to believe it can happen, I have no evidence of this working out well and am convinced it&#x27;s a rather high risk to take with disproportionate upside.