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by es7 1508 days ago
When I was at Google this was a huge problem.

I worked on features/products that could be built and supported by small teams. Once those projects were ‘done’, those same teams inevitably turned to unnecessary rewrites, expansions and redesigns. And they all got promoted for it. For turning a 5-person project into a 25 person project that did the same thing, but with more moving pieces.

Because you can’t usually reach L6 by maintaining a project, no matter how impactful.