I’m thinking of pivoting to a new company that’s a little bigger. Any advice for such a transition?

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If you have a place in mind, try to do as much research as you can on it. Sometimes working for a bigger organization can have advantages, they tend to have bigger budgets or may have better benefits. But in today's world you also have to worry about any potential for layoffs. You don't want to land in a big organization and be the last person aboard if things get ugly. I mean, you can't go through life worrying about hypothetical disasters, but, it's something perhaps worth considering.

Make sure you are switching for the right reasons, be it personally or professionally. Don’t just switch to switch.

Yeah I agree with this. Don't just switch because you think you should. If a company treats you right, gives you raises/promotions, and you are happy with what you do, why switch?

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How and at what level you enter as will be important. Big companies are great in many areas, but they tend to think of employees as having been hired to do X… and only X… and so you get to do X with 3% to 6% raises for the rest of your career. That’s the biggest difference I’ve seen between small / large companies.

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