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0 pointsmathattack4mo ago0 comments

Shouldn’t be a political play then.

In a good market I’d say you should look around. In this market, keep your head down and get some experience.

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I've been at companies as small as 10 and as large as 30,000. and there is no lack of politics in smaller companies from what I've seen.

alexpotato4mo ago

In my experience, politics can happen at any sized company.

e.g. I've worked at firms with 300,000 people and 150 people. The smaller company had MORE politics in some ways.

Or as a manager of mine in Hong Kong once said:

"In Chinese there is a saying: if there are 3 people then there will be politics"

mathattackOP4mo ago

Fair enough. I guess my take is more that a CEO of a 100 person company should know who the best person for the role is. The CEO of a 100,000 person company is less likely.

I’ve seen what you’ve seen too though: companies that haven’t grown past everyone thinking they report to the CEO turning into gossip factories.

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