> Can you design bigger systems? Bigger systems don't necessarily meet customer needs better than smaller systems. They may just contain a lot of extraneous co

> Can you design bigger systems? Bigger systems don't necessarily meet customer needs better than smaller systems. They may just contain a lot of extraneous complexity. > Can you lead bigger teams? Bigger teams don't necessarily accomplish more than small, focused teams. The more people on the team, the higher the communication overhead, and the harder it is to maintain "conceptual integrity" in the product. Brooks described these issues in The Mythical Man-Month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month If employees get rewarded for building bigger systems and leading bigger teams, they'll have a bias toward doing those things ("empire building"), even when they may be against the better interest of the company and its customers.