Product companies require a higher level of talent than consulting companies do. The larger companies get, it just gets harder to maintain that level of qualit

Product companies require a higher level of talent than consulting companies do. The larger companies get, it just gets harder to maintain that level of quality, and the consequences show up in the output. A Google at 50K employees looks very similar to a MS or an IBM when they were at that staffing level. Look at Intel they have been stuck at 100k for decades. The only exception I can think of is Samsung but this is really over a much smaller time frame so doubt it will sustain.