[y4mi]

What you say is my experience as well, with one caveat: the large corporation is usually much less productive then the smallish team that actually able to "just do [thing]".

It's just that it's impossible to scale that approach, so the larger the enterprise gets, the less you'll actually be shipping... As pretty much all of them seem to think it's easy to scale development teams, increasing their headcount and running productivity against a wall.

A small team has barely any space for Juniors however, so I think it's very good that both approaches exist in the wild

[fxtentacle]

Agree. My team is small, but everyone has 10+ years of experience. We can get a lot of research prototypes churned out quickly.

But then for the deployment and maintenance, they hired a large army of cheap inexperienced junior developers.