Anyone here have experience working for a large (several hundreds of employees or more) family owned company? What was your experience? How does it compare to investor-owned companies?

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It’s night and day different in almost every respect. Whether it’s better depends entirely on the family and, most importantly, the particular family member(s) involved with the company.

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