What is it like to work in a startup vs large company's tech department?

In a startup: You do all the work -- pressure usually not that high
In a big company (well structured): You do what you are best at doing + Learn things the right way -- Tend to be high pressure

Big companies need to race for market share (even if local ones) while startups still need a product before they enter the race

@gitpush pressure in a big company not that high??? Well structured???

Hi my name is practiseSafeHex and I would like to present any of my rants to counter this point lol

@practiseSafeHex Ten I guess I was lucky not to face that.

Then I guess there is no difference other than Salary and experience lol

@rutee07 OP ^^^. Hopefully you always feel some sort of pressure to deliver high quality work in a timely manner. Biggest difference imo is start ups: time spent developing vs big company: time spent explaining to people why because their code sucks, defending your own, and politicking. That said, it can be a really good opportunity to find a mentor to learn and grow from at a larger company but if you already know the ropes in and out of whichever stack your working in I’d say startups all the way. Just don’t let them justify paying you less (10% less than fair market value maybe, but 30%?!?!) for “equity”, since 80% or more of tech startups fail.

@practiseSafeHex @gitpush very lucky. I imagine you had a ceo that has worked in tech before. So many green Tech start up CEOs are some MBA who has no clue what the time cost of delivering high quality software can be which can scale w/ the business, etc..

@NSGangster Ya that is a huge draw back, I once worked in a company where CEO was pure business man that had no idea how software is built and thought everything requires changing few CSS values when the business delivered pure Visual Basic.net software :\