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I worked for a small software company for 6 years after finishing uni. I was the first person the founders hired. It was a great time and I learnt a lot and got to make a lot of decisions and had a lot of freedom.
But they didn’t pay anywhere near as much as a corporate job so when I got offered significantly more money to work for a very large company the small company couldn’t match it and pushed me to take it as a huge career and development opportunity.
It’s been great working at the big company but I really miss the culture and involvement I had at the small company.
Not to mention most “8-bit” CPUs had a 16 bit address bus.