7 traps from small outsourcing companies

The traps from small companies are very common and a lot of newbies are falling. Is very hard in the beginning of your career to understand that sometimes a small company offers you a job, but that position comes with a lot of responsibilities. This is in equal terms good and bad, because you need responsibilities to grow, but there need to be an equity for your experience.

I worked for a small company for 3 years and this came in my beginning as a developer. The good thing here was that I learned a lot, in a lot of sectors: web development, mobile development, web services, voice development, DevOps and others. For me this was a very nice experience and the environment was so cool, but not everything is amazing.

This probably doesn’t fit to any small company in the world, but I identified in many of my friend’s companies a list of problems.

1. High volume of work

The high volume of work maybe sounds interesting in the beginning for you, but after some time you can find this very stressful and it can hurt your healthy. When a company is small, the tasks are spread throw the employees, but not necessary they are the right person to do it. Sometimes you have to do some tasks which are urgent, but you don’t know exactly how to do it because that task is over your level of experience. In…