I've mixed feelings after reading this. On one hand I've had the "opportunity" to briefly work for some dysfunctional companies on short term projects and I kno

I've mixed feelings after reading this. On one hand I've had the "opportunity" to briefly work for some dysfunctional companies on short term projects and I know exactly what the author is talking about. But after over 2 decades in this line of work I disagree that this is the majority of Fortune 300~500. Every huge company I worked for had some level of apparent dysfunction that later, once I got to know the history why they did it this way turned out to be the best of the worst options available. At the same time I had people tell me, "of what a horrible mess and a dumpster fire of crap, are we allowed to throw it all out and do it properly? " when showing them around corporate systems and codebases. Then after eventually we obtain permission to "throw out and do it properly" for some small part of the system it is discovered that "no, the people that did it before us were not idiots, we were just not aware of certain constraints that forced their choices and now are forcing ours". You would have to replace everything... Which never was and never will be possible in a large company that has the same system and apps working since they started developing it on punch cards in 1960s...