[jongjong]

The worst part is that the people who work for these companies who work for the government think that they're efficient. In reality, there are often startups out there which could build the same system better in 1/10th of the time.

The bigger an organization is, the more easy money they have, the worst their expectations are when it comes to software development. I once worked for such a company as a software developer and I was shocked that I kept getting positive reviews in spite of being the laziest I had ever been. I was spending most of my time watching videos on YouTube; but the little work I did between YouTube videos was somehow better than that of their average employee...

[ozim]

Worst part is that even if you are efficient startup you are not going to get government contract because of red tape and also to get such contract you have to know right people.

Then even if you get such contract you probably stop being efficient - because of red tape and lack of incentives to still be efficient because money will flow either you are efficient or not.