&gt; . Lots of people want to work for large, prominent companies like Google or FB, dreaming of working on cool projects. But the reality usually turns out to be much less glamorous. Instead of being the guy who comes up with the next killer product or feature, you will likely end up as a small cog in a huge, well-oiled machine, optimising ads to increase some metric in the fifth decimal place.<p>Can anyone add to how true this is for Amazon, Facebook, Google etc.?<p>I imagine the problems the author found working on a large game is similar for most large projects. Not saying that small projects are better though, just different.