How the other half lives

185,000, 110,000 and now 55,000 are the rough sizes of each of the different companies I have worked for; Accenture, Wipro and EMC. There is a part of me that thinks that despite being an old world European, at some stage I think the downwards trend (size wise) will continue, and that I’ll end up being involved in a tiny start up type-company. Despite the size thing, another thing that strikes me is the different levels of diversity in each of the different companies. I now believe that there is a very clear difference between cultural and personality diversity e.g. EMC has a lot of white middle class Americans working for it, yet there are fewer different personality types in Accenture. Indeed one of the biggest challenges in EMC is that we don’t typically hire young graduates so our experienced technologists all have very diverse backgrounds meaning they all tend to work in slightly different ways. As a result I would suggest that Accenture teams are actually easier to manage. One of the good things about this personality diversity in EMC is that I am exposed to more people who have been involved in and sold start-ups and small companies. Conversations with them really are very interesting. That said here’s an interesting article which reminds me why working for a big corporate, rather than a start-up can still be pretty good. http://www.fastcompany.com/1825592/9-reasons-to-choose-a-corporate-job-over-a-startup?partner=rss&utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29