What it felt like to move from a large company to a startup

Introduction

My name is Kotaro Nakane, and I work as a director at Definer Inc.
Wantedly seems to be proposing the concept of "empathetic hiring," and I felt the need to express the values of the members, I created this article.
In this article, I would like to share my personal feelings after a few months of working at a startup.

Assumption

My previous job was with a foreign IT consulting firm, which had the following characteristics
Each project was very different in terms of work content, so I was able to experience a wide range of work
The culture was very open, and even the opinions of younger employees were adopted as long as they were logical.
The staff had a certain amount of discretion and could decide how to proceed and how much time to allocate within the framework of the project.
Clients were large companies, and the time span was generally six months to a year.

What it feels like to be in a startup

I thought that the culture at my previous job was relatively startup-oriented, but I was betrayed in a good way.

Breadth of work

The lines between job types have become blurred, and I am now able to be involved in a wider range of work.
For example, I used to work mainly in the cloud/infrastructure area, but now I also work on back-end and front-end development, and even interact directly with customers to make proposals.

Discretion

I had a lot of discretion in my previous job, but I can (and need to) make a lot of decisions on my own, which is incomparable to that.
(You need to decide.) Your decisions often become the company's decisions as it is.

Sense of speed

Things change rapidly on a monthly or weekly basis.
For example, we are already collaborating with a customer this month that we had not expected to work with until last month.

Quantity/quality of work

The percentage of essential work has increased dramatically.
There are no excessive applications or procedures that are typical of large companies.
Everything is important for the future of the company.
Workload has increased.
As a startup, there is no limit to the number of things you can do/want to do.
If you enjoy working on unknown tasks one by one, you may be a good candidate for this job.

For those of you who have read this

If you have read this far, I am sure we share some values, and I would be very happy if we could talk casually first.
Definer, Inc. is looking for people to work with.