rootsu

I saw this old thread on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957371 and I am interested in what other tools people have developed in last 6 years.

I am an average engineer. I am not extremely bright nor I am technically gifted. I am just your bang average IT person, but For the last two-three years, I seem to have been failing upwards in my career without any reason.

I know my basic way around servers. I can write simple python scripts. I can google my way around the problems but that is the end of my wits. The only redeeming quality that I have is that I get well along with everyone. I am seeing my peers writing amazing scripts and doing exceptional jobs but for some reason, I am the one who is getting promoted and getting raises instead of them. Everywhere around me I see people vastly more competent in what they do. And I'm pretty sure to them it's obvious I'm just copying what they do but worse.

Now I have started getting calls from Fortune 100 companies for management positions and I am not sure I would ever survive there. I don't know what to do here.

Has any of you ever experienced this?

So after working as a DevOps/SRE, in a small-scale company for a few years. I finally cracked the interview rounds and have accepted an offer from one of the biggest CDN companies on the planet.

But I am really really scared now. I feel like all the work I did was very very minuscule and my experience won't be sufficient to survive a company like this. I can use your help guys. If you have worked with companies of similar size and scale, can you please tell me how was your experience? What are the key differences between working with big companies and small companies?