Question for those who have worked in the Salesforce implementation world. Do you prefer working at the big players of the space (Accenture, Big 4, Slalom, etc) or the smaller shops out there (Costal Cloud, CloudShift, the many others I’m missing)? What are the Pros and Cons of big v smaller shops?

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I also prefer enterprise (and thus big shops), but it is much easier to start out with mid-market, because you will have more direct impact, and higher-level client relationships, as well as just more clients/more end-to-end project cycles. Then in 3 years, your client counterparts will get promoted, or move on to bigger and better opportunities, and want to work with you again, at your new firm/higher level position.

Starting from the bottom at enterprise and trying to advance is a combination of politics and waiting for attrition. And if you're stuck on a failing program, you'll have to start over again, anyway.

This is effectively a post-mortem about why I feel like I have had some successes that other peers haven't, because I don't think I'm any smarter than anyone else, and I didn't in any way map out the way my career journey has gone.

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I’ve worked at large and small, and have enjoyed both tremendously. I prefer large firms at this stage of my career because I only want to work on complex enterprise programs.

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