The Working Mode
How to work in startup vs. big companies
I think at a point in our UX career we thought about this. What the working mode is for startup and big, established companies. I know we all realize this but we always carry over our mindset and habit from our previous companies (or the environment we wish to be in).
I had a manager who came from a startup to work in a relatively big-sized, more established company. This manager previously led a small team in a small startup that shipped everyday, and made decisions quickly with the whole team. Coming to this company, it’s not that straightforward. There will be “approvals” and multiple round of “reviews”, and a lot of stakeholders. We need to keep loop of everything and everyone. Suddenly, this manager sounded frustrated and always tried to push us—the subordinates—to really push things forward, sometimes in an unhealthy way.
On the other hand, I’ve worked mostly in big companies with slower pac…
