Small vs Big offices?
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For me (others experiences may vary) I really enjoyed working in a 10 person shop. I had a lot more control over the work, but that didn't necessarily mean better projects or clients. In our case we had a hand full of nationally/internationally known brands, but for the most part we took on underdogs. Clients who had something great but were either new or just getting their act together. This was fun and you could see a direct correlation between your work and their success however these clients were often challenging. They required a lot of education and patience. It made it harder to do what you thought was right in a lot of cases.
I worked at a larger agency of about 30 (which is not really large at all) and I felt slightly less free to do what I thought needed to be done. If there was an improvement to be made and I tried to make it I inevitably ran up against someone who wanted to squash it, or run it through more channels which made change slow or impossible.
I've also worked in house at much larger places and jesus fuck. Just forget it. The bureaucracy was impossible to deal with. You get into a place that's to corporate and new ideas are just shat on.
To your last comment, a smaller team becomes close by virtue of being small. I didn't know many of the folks I was working with when I left my last agency and I felt like we were pretty tight as far as coworkers go.