Many large organizations today do not require Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, etc. Those skills/experience are not required or even needed as advertised.
Beware, what is required today in Agile/Scrum/Kanban are rigid bureaucrats to maintain a rigid bureaucracy. Large organizations seek individuals that can navigate layer upon layer upon layer of wasteful bureaucracy and hierarchy. Meaningless meetings. A dizzying maze. Most large organizations need blind obedience and discipline to use strict processes and bureaucrats to execute said processes (e.g. SAFe). They want enforcers, not change agents. "Do not question anything" is the message. Most organizations need you to complete a multitude of wasteful, complex tasks; useless, documentation that will just continue to be added to as the organization feels fit (not removed). Checking box after box of meaningless content. Being a "JIRA expert" is far more useful to these organizations than being a Agile expert. Most large organizations don't want change but an utter adherence to the status quo. They want mindless processes to be followed.
Most large organizations are a Kafka -esque Agile nightmare today (you weren't hired to do what you think you should do and use the skills you have). If you have the skills of a bureaucrat as listed above, you will most likely succeed in large organizations. If you don't, run!
It is not you, it is them!
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