Also, the communications overhead of large corporate hierarchies often serves and sometimes incentivizes the reduction of work. Most people are not driven by a

Also, the communications overhead of large corporate hierarchies often serves and sometimes incentivizes the reduction of work. Most people are not driven by a vision of a great product, a desire to create real value, or a desire to improve one's own value; there is a reason this is the exception, not the rule. Most people want to skate by on the absolute minimum required of them, and large hierarchies have all the leaky cracks that create opportunities to avoid, defer, delay, delegate, and generally abstain from work. In my own personal experience, if your desire is to work on something that has value or if you'd like to increase your own value, you should probably work at a small company, where the hierarchy is relatively flat and where you are as directly responsible and answerable for tasks and projects as possible.