You Know You're in a Big Company When...

You know you're in Big Company when you suddenly find out there are two whole other teams building exactly the same thing but they didn't know of each other.

Didn’t read till the end but I would say: you know you’re in a big company when you get decent salary. Small to medium enterprises pay for the same job only almost half (at least in Germany).

When you find out the big project your leading is competing for resource with a project that is decommissioning the same system.

>Whenever you have a spark of inspiration, your first thought is Is this idea really worth fighting for?

>You decide it isn't.

Ouch, that one hit too close to home.

Another one that happens to me often.

"I work for $company"

"Oh do you know John, he works there too"

Either you don't, or the John you know is another person.

If you think a big company is convoluted, try the government where the internal tools and services never seem to do what they were meant to do, or even worst, they are almost always down. Another example, support sends you an email to tell you that the email isn’t working. One wonders, how the heck government even does anything.

“The company's web site lists dozens of locations, and yours is not included.”

Happened to me as well! :)