Big companies are built to fail. The variety of departments and personal empires built by managers of those departments create an environment where innovation (

Big companies are built to fail. The variety of departments and personal empires built by managers of those departments create an environment where innovation (or even the ability to ask "is there a better way?") gets crushed because "that's not the way we do things." Departmental managers don't optimize for company success. They optimize for personal success. A bigger staff and bigger budget is a promotion. Saving money means a smaller budget means a de facto demotion. Smart people move on and the big companies are left to wonder why it's so hard to find good talent.