Writing about career transitions, specifically values, soft skills, culture, navigating career uncertainty, leadership styles and finally remote work has filled our cups. To support your career growth as we go into a new year, we’re sharing the highlights of each article below

If you’re in a situation thinking about what type of role and company best fits your goals, this article may help you identify some key differences between coding at startups and corporate companies.

“For most people it takes a decade to work for a few companies and figure out where they want to go. Commit flips that whole model on its head.”

“It was amazing. It really seems like a too-good-to-be-true type set up that you get to try all these different startups. I hope I can do this for the rest of my life, because not having to do the six to seven interview process is just great.”

“I found my personal growth was kind of limited because the environment we were in was so fast-paced. We had a lot to do and limited time to think about whether it was the right thing to do. I found myself spending too much time doing things rather than learning to push my ideas up to the product owners.”

With a toxic culture accounting for almost two thirds of why employees leave their jobs, there’s never been a better time to carefully consider what kind of culture you want to work in and want to help build.

“I liked the idea of working at startups where things move a bit faster, you can try new things, and you can have a bigger impact than you would in a large organization.”

“There’s always ways that things could be better. Things are never done, there’s always some way that it could be improved upon. I’ve done some client work in the past, where at a certain point you hand it over and then you’re no longer in it. But here, you’re continually working on a problem.”

“Our values can be fluid and change over time. The values you held 5 years ago may be vastly different than what they are today. If they haven’t changed that much, that’s OK! As time passes, we may start to form different opinions about the places we work, the importance of different factors around work, and the field(s) we are a part of.”

King Choi is a Commit engineer who recently returned to the Commit community after working on with Invoke Media as a backend developer for six months. We talked to King about his path to Commit, Invoke, and back to Commit.