My company, Adevinta, adopted this last year. As you can imagine, some higher-ups pushed this idea as an initiative to improve our efficiency as a company. Let'

My company, Adevinta, adopted this last year. As you can imagine, some higher-ups pushed this idea as an initiative to improve our efficiency as a company. Let's improve our tech culture! We are going to benefit from less code duplication, more collaboration between teams, and we are going to build reusable software across teams. What do you think happened after one year of pushing this idea down our throats? Exactly. Nothing. Despite months of documenting the initiative, organizing workshops and brainstorming sessions, and managers pushing engineers to make pull requests to other teams' codebases, no progress was made. The sad thing is that the higher-ups and managers that wasted our time are not going to hold any accountability or responsibility for the decision... Like it usually happens in big companies.