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Tbh it has been the opposite experience for me.

Small companies had little onboarding process, little to no training budget, and everything had be deployed yesterday. Plus a lower salary.

Large companies had formal onboarding, training budgets which they encouraged you to use, and didn't mind spending more time get the thing right before releasing and a higher salary.



The only large company I worked at where this was true was Microsoft. I have literally nothing bad to say about my experiences there, even the fact that I was caught up in the massive layoffs after the Great Financial Crisis. They handled it all with class and encouraged us to abuse their educational resources.

This hasn't been true most other places I've done contracting work for, or heard from friends who are full-timers.

It probably just runs the gamut depending on personal experiences. I guess my point is that it's hard to find a really high salary and expect to be trained up, and that seems logical enough to me.




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