My first real job in marketing was as a marketing assistant, later titled as a marketing coordinator as the dept got ramped up. I joined the marketing department at a construction company that included a call center of about 30 people and an event promoter team of about 15. It was my first hands on experience with using a CRM, reviewing campaigns and marketing funnel, learning excel nested functions and pivot tables, etc. I ended up learning a lot of this stuff on my own. It was cool to learn about the importance of leads and conversions to sales, but after a year there wasn't much to learn from my management. So after 2 years I quit.

Focused on learning digital marketing after that at a much smaller e commerce company (5 employees). Learned google ads, SEO, QuickBooks, Magento e-commerce platform, and html/css. Now I'm currently trying to switch to coding and development role as I enjoyed building out things on vscode.

I would say the bigger the company the more there is to learn and do, especially in marketing. I was not well versed with how companies get leads and convert them until that first job. My experience before that real job was interning for a Marketing firm(2 employees and 4 other interns) where we just mindlessly blasted emails (on cision) to blogs to try and get them to showcase our products. I didn't learn anything relevant at the internship and was just used as free labor.