Trust me, at (most) big tech companies there isn't anything that nefarious going on at the engineer level. In fact everyone basically agrees that improving docu

Trust me, at (most) big tech companies there isn't anything that nefarious going on at the engineer level. In fact everyone basically agrees that improving documentation is important, but it constantly gets swept aside in the constant churn of new features, fires to put out, and frequent meetings. Information gets spread out across various docs, wikis, readmes, etc. What ends up happening is each part of the system has a "point of contact" who is the go to for that piece. Lots of decision history is in the heads of team elders. Hopefully they are still around!