Ask HN: Starting career at a small or large company?
Hello Hacker News! I'm a senior in a small midwestern college studying computer science, deciding where I want to go for my last internship (likely where I will end up full time).
I know a lot of software engineers browse HN and I wanted to crowdsource advice. My career goal is to be a senior software engineer / engineering manager in 5-10 years from now. I'm facing two choices - one is a small company (~50 employees) in the financial media space. The other is a large N-tier bank (think Chase, BOA, C1).
I think this comes down to the tradeoffs between large companies and small companies. Being specific to starting careers, do you think one is better than the other?
I know a lot of software engineers browse HN and I wanted to crowdsource advice. My career goal is to be a senior software engineer / engineering manager in 5-10 years from now. I'm facing two choices - one is a small company (~50 employees) in the financial media space. The other is a large N-tier bank (think Chase, BOA, C1).
I think this comes down to the tradeoffs between large companies and small companies. Being specific to starting careers, do you think one is better than the other?