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I worked at an S&P 500 company on a project from an acquisition. It was extremely well engineered. Reliable. Attention to details that you sometimes don't see in larger companies. A lot of seasoned amazing engineers worked at that startup.

I think there are plenty of examples of amazing software coming out of small teams or even single developers and plenty of examples of large corporations producing garbage with huge teams.

> we want to do things right in a way that will be robust long-term.

If you don't have the right people that know what "right" is and have seen projects through the long term then this is often used as an excuse to over-engineer and do work nobody cares about. At least that's my experience.