>Because management didn't know which direction should be taken... and they kept hiring too! They kept hiring new developers when the ones already at place had

>Because management didn't know which direction should be taken... and they kept hiring too! They kept hiring new developers when the ones already at place had absolutely nothing to do! I think big companies trying to do things like "Capture a market segment that will be a trillion (I made this number up) dollars in 2025" suffer terrible analysis paralysis. The 5 year plan has an extreme revenue ramp up and insane targets. If you combine that with politics, there is a lot of business and financial justification that has to go into every decision, and many decisions will be safe ones that look innovative (we're going to build on Insert Latest Cloud and use AI!) but have no real value to many customers. The end result is crazy hiring (and firing a few years later) and groups with opposite experiences. Some groups have no work to do and other groups are working 80 hour weeks trying to make it seem like the marketing and growth curves are all true. It's a comedy (if you are able to stay out of the mess and politics) or a tragedy if you have a manager who feels they want to be the shining star that supports this mad rush.