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Large organizations also just have to be more process-driven and formal. And it's fine if you don't like that. At a former employer, I was much happier when it was a medium-sized enterprise than when it grew by almost 10x. A lot of things had to change that weren't really to my liking (or skill set) but they had to.



I also agree with this. I’ve been at growing companies that lacked processes like OKRs and then adopted them. The reason they crop up is to organize the chaos of hundred person teams.

On a 30 person team you’re constantly talking to everyone and don’t need an overarching framework. As you get to 300, teams may do duplicate or incompatible work. There is too much going on to follow unless you start getting a more formal process in place.




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