[vadym909]

This is pretty common in most large companies. Remember the mini-msft blog? This doesn't happen as much on product teams but in all the support functions which don't hire world class people like they do on software engg.

Basically as companies revenues grow, every cost center gets to put in a request to grow headcount. If you don't your colleagues will and you'll be looked down upon. then you take on shiny new non-essential projects and find ways to justify it. Launch it get promoted and leave. The next person comes in- decides it is crap- shuts it down and starts their own new project to reinvent the same thing . Org politics.

[bradleyjg]

In a way we are lucky this is true. If there were only economies of scale and no diseconomies we’d end up with only a few dominant conglomerates.