Yes.. I remember early in my career I went as an intern to Big Company A. I was lucky to go to a team full with almost 100% senior developers. When talking to each one of them I asked them if they still liked programming, and all of them told me they were fed up with it and couldn't wait to move on.
That was shocking to me.. and made me have some existential doubts.
Later I interned at Medium Company B. And at this company I asked the senior developers if they liked to program. And they couldn't even understand why I would ask such a thing. They obviously liked it.
There were huge cultural differences between A and B. A was manager driven, lots of middle management making you feel small all the time and subject to the whims of people that just didn't get it. Company B was a totally flat structure, even though they had hundreds of people in the company. Its environment was totally enviable. A great company to work for.
So yeah.. I'd say company culture is very important.
If you're stuck in the wrong culture you just want to die.
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Yes.. I remember early in my career I went as an intern to Big Company A. I was lucky to go to a team full with almost 100% senior developers. When talking to each one of them I asked them if they still liked programming, and all of them told me they were fed up with it and couldn't wait to move on.
That was shocking to me.. and made me have some existential doubts.
Later I interned at Medium Company B. And at this company I asked the senior developers if they liked to program. And they couldn't even understand why I would ask such a thing. They obviously liked it.
There were huge cultural differences between A and B. A was manager driven, lots of middle management making you feel small all the time and subject to the whims of people that just didn't get it. Company B was a totally flat structure, even though they had hundreds of people in the company. Its environment was totally enviable. A great company to work for.
So yeah.. I'd say company culture is very important.
If you're stuck in the wrong culture you just want to die.