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So last Tuesday I went to bed, working for a small company; and woke the day after, working to the largest IT services company in Israel...
All my professional life I used to work for the same small company or alone... Any advice from those, who know how large companies work?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It is always easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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You may find that nothing much changes for you. But if it morphs into what feels like a new job, this is worth reading:
Red Flags in a New Job[^]
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Looking at the history of the buyer - they absorb small companies within 2-4 years from acquisition, when those companies became departments of some expertise...
Until then the new companies are 'partners' or 'child-companies'...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Any advice from those, who know how large companies work?
Pray (often). My last company, I joined a very small division where we all knew each other; it was really good. Then we got absorbed into a larger division and things were slightly less good; decisions were taken by people we had never heard of. Then we got taken over by another company and soon many of us were without a job.
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Made me day...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If I can spread a little joy ... (or fear) 
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Unless you're in management, you'll wind up being "that old guy".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: you'll wind up being "that old guy".
Or better: "that old guy who knows how it all works".
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Maybe 23 years already defines me as such 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Maybe 23 years
Wow, didn't realise you were that young.
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I'm 23 years OLD... Counting backward nowadays...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If it's anything like my own experience, expect new people to be brought in so things are now run the way the larger company wants them to be. You'll see it as overhead that you never realized you needed, because your previous small company managed to do just fine without it. You'll probably feel that what these people contribute to your day-to-day work experience is not positive.
Expect to start cursing multiple levels of useless managers, barriers to be put in place every step of the way in the name of security, corporate red tape, the lawyer department to be involved in every decision, HR, and no longer being able to ask a quick, simple question to someone and immediately act upon the response; instead, you'll fill forms, submit requests, and wait for weeks if not months for a committee to review anything at all.
You'll go from being able to yelling out over the cubicles, "I need to reboot [MachineXYZ], anybody logged into it?" to having it scheduled to take place on a Saturday a few weeks down the road at 3:00am.
Dilbert isn't just a satirical cartoon about work life at a large corporation; it's a documentary.
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And no more generalists; just specialists. Except they can't seem to "slot" you since you are just there.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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On the other hand, it might be a turn for the better.
You never know, the big company must be doing something right. At least historically.
Just make sure you have an exit strategy!
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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I have spent a lot of time with smaller companies too. They are, by far, my preference. I now work for a very large company. We have thousands of employees, are top ten in our industry in the world, and are privately owned. That last thing changes things A LOT. It has resulted in us have a rather flat, wide organization. I have three bosses and the next one higher is the owner. That is a much, much better way to run things I think. In my previous large company, I had four bosses in just this division. It was a horrible place to work.
In your case, a lot will depend on how they are organized and the nature of the bosses. Hopefully, you do not get the standard issue MBAs that Dilbert is written about. Best of luck.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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My observation is that
- In a small company, person is important and process is less important (or unimportant), whereas
- In a large company, process is everything; person is much less important.
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Imagine the small company as being like the gear in an analog clock that spins really fast from which all other activity is divided. The imagine the big gear moving ever so slowly as it moves the hour hand ponderously through a 12 hour cycle. That's the difference between how a small vs. large company works.
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Currently I own a computer with a i7-6600U processor. Soon I will replace it.
There is a lot of fuzz about AMD vs Intel nowadays...
And I have doubts to understand the figures:
My current CPU:
The Intel i7-6600U[^] has 2 cores and 4 threads, a base frequency of 2.6GHZ and a max frequency of 3.4GHz with 4MB Cache.
The ones I'm doubting to get:
The Intel i7-10610U[^] has 4 cores and 8 threads, a base frequency of 1.8GHz and a max frequency of 4.9GHz with 8MB Cache.
The Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U[^] has 8 cores and 16 threads, a base frequency of 1.7GHz and a max frequency of 4.1GHz with 8MB Cache.
The Intel i7-10875H[^] has 8 cores and 16 threads, a base frequency of 2.3GHz and a maximum frequency of 5.10GHz with a 16MB Cache.
This said, all the newer ones run at a much lower base frequency. Does this means the everyday tasks on programs prepared to run only on one core will run slower?
In case we would have 3 single core designed programs running at the same time... Would windows set them to use a different core each?
If I would have 3 vmware virtual machines running at once... having more cores would be better (would each core be dedicated to one virtual machine)?
Thank you very much for your time and help.
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Why you are the i7 / Ryzen 7 comparison...
There are newer CPUs out there...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Those are the CPUs the newest models of the computers I'm interested in can use.
Anyway, as far as I know, the i7 / Ryzen 7 alone doesn't mean anything without the generation they belong to.
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See...
Joan M wrote: the i7 / Ryzen 7 alone doesn't mean anything
sure. I have a 10 years old Dell with i7 in it...
Globally, Intel CPUs are more power hungry (not sure if it is an issue), but behave better with applications that do not scale out really well (mostly games), while ADM works better with applications that really use multi-threading...
I would say, that you should list the kind of application you use/develop(?) and start from there (in most cases there are recommendations on the product site)...
In any case - and if the prize is an issue - ADM tend to be cheaper about $20 per thread than Intel...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yes, of course, but usually the industrial softwares I work with are not very prone to recommend the best specs on that field...
Have you seen my questions at the bottom of my post?
Thanks.
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Base frequency means the minimum speed every process will have, if there is no urge the CPU will use it (as higher speed needs more power and generates more heat), however when the CPU 'feels' the pressure it will rise (in a pre-defined way) it's own speed, up to the boost limit...
In most cases a single core application does not mean that the core is dedicated, and the application may run on several physical cores. The boosting will work the same in this case too...
To use vmware with dedicated cores, you need to do the right configuration of your VM - which is not very advised... In most case your computer (with the right motherboard and frameware) will serve you well there...
What you need is to estimate how many cores you use on average (not peek)... If you can find one with a lower base and higher boost that can give you the right amount of cores, you should chose it...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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