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Same with me. I was the most senior dev still writing code ~every day, and there was literally no place to grow. Moved to Google and learned a ton, now I'm one of a number of big fishes in my org, and I also feel like I can potentially move on more easily if I want to.


IMO people who describe themselves as big fish in a small pond come off as extremely arrogant


Was just a statement of fact. 11 years at one company with only 20 engineers runs into limits of your scope pretty fast.


How about ‘largest fish in a small pond’?




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