Wasting time. I've seen large companies and it's astonishing how little work and how much process they have for minuscole changes. The only productive way of

Wasting time. I've seen large companies and it's astonishing how little work and how much process they have for minuscole changes. The only productive way of managing this is do what Google or Amazon do: split in sections and teams and get them to do something independently, with the hope that someone will struck gold. It's a bit like a venture incubator and - sometimes good things come out of it, most of the time dead products come out. The company where I'm currently in is ~200 engs and a few companies ago with 50 engs was easily 10x more productive and had a way bigger codebase. Management is either too useless to care / too attached to saying they have N underlings and the business makes so much money they can afford to spend x% on tech workers, just to be safe.