This was particularly bad at Meta pre-efficiency push Zuck. There was huge bloat that was counterproductive. Empire builders were incentivized by promotions based on the size of their orgs. One thing the article didn't mention is how crucial it is for a team to have focus and to ruthlessly prioritize. It's easier for bigger teams to fall into the trap of doing "busy work" and people fighting for scope on their perfor…
I quit meta in large part for this reason, right before the push. My friends who stayed said the workload was hell, but I wonder if I would have experienced less manager / director incompetence.
P Thiel, in 0-1 which I just started, says if you find yourself in an org where people spend more time building artifacts of showing progress, than progressing something, quit.