I worked at a place that made a group of loosely-related websites. Basically different spins/themes on the same products. There were 4 of us on the development team. There were 10 websites. Some new, some in maintenance mode.
I quit after a few years, and about 3-4 years later they went on a hiring spree. Tripled the number of developers. Refreshed some products, discontinued some, and some went into maintenance mode. They still had around the same 10 websites, but 12 developers.
The products didn't get better. The products didn't get made any faster. They didn't have any less bugs. My wife actually works there now, and when she tells me about the issues they have I laugh a little bit.
It's all the same problems we had back then. Invites don't work. Teams doesn't work. Uploading profile pictures has issues. Entering data doesn't work. Registration is broken.
I had a somewhat similar experience with a large tech company. Grew from <100 to 600 in a few years, but in the meantime they weren't even able to update the homepage. Not even the content changed, in almost three years. Everything was convoluted and over-engineered. The whole thing was rewritten from scratch twice, and when I left there were plans for a third rewrite from scratch. COVID destroyed the company: there were zero customers. But the website still struggled to stay online. That's when I decided to leave.
I quit after a few years, and about 3-4 years later they went on a hiring spree. Tripled the number of developers. Refreshed some products, discontinued some, and some went into maintenance mode. They still had around the same 10 websites, but 12 developers.
The products didn't get better. The products didn't get made any faster. They didn't have any less bugs. My wife actually works there now, and when she tells me about the issues they have I laugh a little bit.
It's all the same problems we had back then. Invites don't work. Teams doesn't work. Uploading profile pictures has issues. Entering data doesn't work. Registration is broken.