My experience lines up with this. I've worked for large and small companies, as well as the federal govt. My impression of the govt department I was in was that

My experience lines up with this. I've worked for large and small companies, as well as the federal govt. My impression of the govt department I was in was that it was reasonably efficient for its size; which, since it was huge, meant it was not very efficient. That said, it didn't seem notably worse than the large corporation I'd worked for. In fact they seemed quite similar to each other.