Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by logifail on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:57PM
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> excess of middle managers [and/or] too many poorly conceived and managed product and R&D adventures
My OH works for a big multinational, has had a variety of roles, at a variety of locations, and despite the fact that she's not in tech you've still managed to summarise pretty much every single conversation I've had with her about her work over the last 20+ years.
Re:Why big tech companies need so many people
by jameshart on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:38AM
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The thing about being a large company in an innovative industry is that the optimal number of “poorly conceived and managed product and R&D adventures” you need to run is not zero.
Certainly it’s possible to run too many of them, but if you are overindexing on perfect vetting and execution of every idea you might not be running enough.
I've worked for a few and there definitely wasn't 1000s of people in the Legal & Compliance departments constantly getting sued and harassing managers and engineers about travel expenses or diversity training.
Instead, it is the exact same problems you see at every large company i.e. excess of middle managers each trying to grow their own fiefdom and duplicating capabilities across the organisation.
Or it's too many poorly conceived and managed product and R&D adventures.