The cool thing about smaller companies is that you will become a generalist faster and that’s a good thing. You’ll be able to get your hands on to so many things and won’t be as siloed. You’ll likely do infra, networking, security, service desk, etc.

Awesome breadth of learning.

— Frank McGovern (@FrankMcG) February 1, 2022

The drawback, though, of working for a small company is that when you interview at a big company many of them will insist you have “no experience.” This despite the fact that in a small company you get wayyyyy more real-world experience because you have to become good at everything. In a small company, it’s you do it or no one does. In a large company there’s a specialty department for everything.