Large Company Inefficiencies

The cluster discusses how large companies suffer from bureaucracy, excessive processes, reduced individual impact, and overall incompetence due to their size, often contrasting this with the agility of smaller startups.

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alex_lav Aug 6, 2024 View on HN

A company being too large to be competent is maybe not the excuse you think it is.

mimikatz Sep 15, 2020 View on HN

This is very on point to how large companies operate.

ZephyrBlu Jun 6, 2022 View on HN

This is expected at big companies as well.

hooby Nov 10, 2023 View on HN

I wonder if it's a function of company size.This sort of thing seems to happen in all large companies - and to be very hard to avoid, if you do grow to that level.

t43562 May 16, 2022 View on HN

Working with larger and larger groups of people gets harder and big companies don't have all the solutions - fortunately - because otherwise little companies wouldn't have a chance.

matwood Oct 10, 2022 View on HN

This is just a big company thing. The larger the company, the less impact any single individual typically has.

BenderV Jun 9, 2020 View on HN

Lots of people are arguing really valid points. I recently switched to a Big Co after 4 start-ups - so I get /it/. I'm just wondering what part is due to inefficiency creeping in VS due to the size of an organisation.Point being: what about SpaceX, Tesla or Stripe ?Are they also slow ? with politics and no transparency & co ?

connor11528 Dec 1, 2024 View on HN

this is an issue with companies being too big

syntheticnature Sep 16, 2024 View on HN

This is a common issue in large corporations.

The bigger the company, the less effective it is.