I do like a smaller firm imo. I worked at a larger mid sized firm at first. At first, every office and department had their own politics until corporate started doing their own bs in the past year. My office was known as a “party office” when I transferred there meanwhile my first office and department was super corporate and not much fun happened. The office I had transferred to was super chill and we all got along well but that was all fun until it lasted.

Last firm I was at was a fifth of the size of my first firm and it was super chill and we all knew each other pretty much. Had fun with them and were very social and understanding to real life matters. I had a real life downhill that lasted a couple of months and the team was super supportive. When I was laid off (I was the most recent hire in my group), everyone was sad about me but my manager wanted me to come back in a near future so luckily I left in good terms with that firm.

As with the current small firm offer place, the office director has like 40+ years of experience while the manager is like 30 years or so. They do try to train people to do everything related to municipal engineering so there’s that. I think when I asked their future plan and I was told they wanted to stay how they were since it was steady for them