I've seen the complete opposite of this in Big Tech. 1. People notoriously lobby for greenfield projects. Obviously all the viable products are already built,

I've seen the complete opposite of this in Big Tech. 1. People notoriously lobby for greenfield projects. Obviously all the viable products are already built, they don't want to make research moonshots (bad for quick promos). So, they create do weak market research and justify their 1000th CRM project. 2. Once it's approved, the building is done by lowly SDEs. Meanwhile, managers and senior engineers are busy in Self-congratulatory emails, giving presentations and taking as much credit as they can. 3. In Bad Big Techs, the building part is fast-tracked so that upper-echelon can gather more kudos per quarter. This creates the toxic WLB scenario. 4. The product launches and gets initial users mainly due to large marketing push. Now the biggest task in hand is operational tasks such as handling outages, security risks etc. These are low visibility unthanked tasks. 5. The PMs/Managers/Senior Engineers don't believe their own product will actually get traction. They jump to another project after receiving virtual medals/promos and the cycle starts anew. In the whole process, the top brass has done nothing but evangelize themselves. The only real skill they've demonstrated is convincing their seniors/ teaching their seniors to convince their seniors to greenlight the project.