I genuinely feel troubled by how accurate this is. When the little startup I was at got acquired by a megacorp we had to migrate a lot of tooling. It shocked m

I genuinely feel troubled by how accurate this is. When the little startup I was at got acquired by a megacorp we had to migrate a lot of tooling. It shocked me how different some of the software is in a philosophical sense. When you only have fifty people it's hard not to think about the plight of your code monkeys, even when you're getting schmoozed by a sales rep. Once you manage to put a couple of elevator rides and a secretary between the decision maker and the work-doer you can go full principal-agent and really take a big old dump into the air con in the programmers' sub-basement.