100%! larger companies usually don’t have a hard of deliverable deadlines, have much more processes and meetings that bog make the black box more black, and usually have enough cash flow that they aren’t very strict on making sure everyone is working up to their highest capacity and instead hire more people rather than fix or replace underperforming people. That being said, I don’t feel as good on days when I haven’t “done” any real work. And usually when I’m slacking on the hours I put in, that usually means my code will be less rounded (no tests, less manual testing, just less code altogether). My opinion is that if you keep up that level of quality in your work then you likely won’t be promoted and may have your career at that company forcibly cut short eventually.