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Last job was for a small division of a big company, whilst i got p***ed off at times having to refer to central functions for permission to do things. I seemed to have a fair degree of freedom to do what i felt was the right thing, and to be fair as long as you could justify why you did what you did it was fine.
Now i am working for a smaller company and feel that everything is micromanaged. I have only been in the job a little over a month so maybe it is just keeping tabs incase i make mistakes as i find my feet, but i get the impression from comments by colleagues that it is how it is and it won't get better.
So whilst having a job is better than the dole and i do have more money, i have been thinking how much i am now paying in fuel costs, i am really missing the cycle commute to work, and am beginning to wonder if i should look for a new job, their seem to be ever more jobs on the market.
So the question is are there any ways of telling what a company will be like before you walk through the door and start.
how happy does everyone look might be a good start?
Don't really get this - in my field the whole point of working for a small company is that they're agile and you can realise your ideas immediately - have an idea on Sunday on the Mtb ride - get it going on Monday at work.
Big companies are weighed down by corporate bureaucracy, but if you can persuade people to get behind you then you can direct massive resources at the problem. Micro-managing at a small company sounds like a bunch of me arse - I'd tell them so tbh. F_k off looking over my shoulder and trying to evaluate the square root of f_k all. Let me do my job.
Big company:
run by finance and HR depts
wasteful
Small company:
Little structure or progression
You have to do everything yourself
small company usually means fewer procedures.
If it's being micromanaged it sounds like you have an owner who is either a) not able to let go of the business he created as it's got bigger or b) a control freak. Either way, not great if you want responsibility and freedom to do things yr way
This company was part of a much bigger group and then had a management buyout, it has then had to get through the recession, it is a construction company after all. I am guessing the result of all this is the worst aspects of both, bureaucracy and little progression!
IME the control freaks came out of the woodwork in the recession...