In response, or rather, inspired by brig's tale of growing with out or out of a small startup...

For me, 50 people in a company is just right. Not so big that you don't know everyone, not so small that it's like a family. My most recent employer had 14 people when I joined, that was too small. Maybe if they had been the right 14 people, or led by the right 1 or 2 people, it would have been better. I don't know. All I know is that the marketing people across the hall may as well have been in Siberia, the way my boss (allegedy a marketer) talked about them and acted towards them and I'm sure they talked about us. Which led to a more marked separation, much more than what I thought was the natural engineering/marketing separation.

I think I like my current job so much because we really don't have any marketing people here yet. So nobody is making promises that we can't fulfil and nobody's bitching that marketing doesn't 'get it.' Because they're not here. Of course that also slows down the revenue stream, but at least there's no in-fighting.