The thing about hiring more software developers than you need is that it just adds complexity to the project without adding any new features. Big companies are

The thing about hiring more software developers than you need is that it just adds complexity to the project without adding any new features. Big companies are terrible at this. As companies add more engineers, the engineers become less productive, then managers get worried and so they 1. Hire more engineers and 2. introduce new project management tools and methodologies to the company which lowers productivity even more but which creates an illusion of progress for idiotic upper management — Over time managers and engineers get used to lower levels of productivity as it keeps declining and the company keep hiring more and more engineers whose engineering skills themselves keep declining from being poorly used.