Except in all cases it's a small team. The company with 20,000 devs still imposes this on each individual team. You just have every small team doing it. It's a

Except in all cases it's a small team. The company with 20,000 devs still imposes this on each individual team. You just have every small team doing it. It's a disaster and it makes no sense. I very firmly believe this, but I have created zero successful companies, and Jeff Bezos has created the most successful company that the world has ever seen, so there's that. It does seem like Microsoft became far more successful after they did away with their famously bad similar policy, so maybe Amazon would be even more successful than they already are if they valued their employees a bit ;)