Comment by anxiouspete

I did exactly this. Joined a big US tech company that I had put on a pedal stool for years. It's nothing like I imagined. Code is poor, documentation is poor, office interaction is poor. It's thrown me into this place of depression and unfulfillment that I don't know how to get back. Every day I go to work and think "is this what working at one of the best tech companies is meant to be like?".