[ryandvm]

On the surface one would think big companies should "know better". I mean, a large company is the accumulation of centuries or even millennia of career experience. Unfortunately, they also contain just as much accumulated nonsense and foolishness; and enough bureaucracy and organizational cruft to hide it forever.

[saagarjha]

Plus there’s the issue that the career experience isn’t evenly distributed, so you can often have people implementing features without the background necessary to do them right.

[mark-r]

A large company is the accumulation of a large number of people, some of who will know better and some of who will not. Hopefully the company is organized such that the people who know will be in a position to catch those kind of errors, but that's not guaranteed.