BigCo isn't fratty at all in my limited experience. Be professional, follow whatever 10 commandments the C-suite prints out & laminates for you, and sell yourself once a year in self-review and you'll win out and barely work if you're remote.
Smaller companies have very little org-chart structure - it's a single small tree. There's no equilibrium in the org chart. So a couple bad actors can easily ruin it all. And they did at every startup I was at.
My play is to collect checks and eventually make art with my computer science experience for the rest of my life.
You too! Let this be a lucrative but minor (ergo efficient) period of our lives :beers:
Use your free time post-covid to build up something worthwhile. A cat is a good start!
Love for its own sake is more than enough. But it takes a suspension of disbelief that modernity may have beat out of you.
And to take it further, even if you’re one of those (many) people who thinks the sky is constantly falling with COVID...there is still no reason to wait until “post-COVID”. If you want to build a skillset start working towards that now, not tomorrow