[P_I_Staker]

Interestingly, I've seen the exact opposite. Platform is the team that they see, and they do a tremendous amount of the total work. I guess maybe that's the difference; the teams you worked on didn't write much useful code.

What I've seen is platform being the "elite" place to work, or at least the one where you can do cool things. Otherwise you're working with "cookie cutters". Most specific content, in our case written for individual customers was not as important! There are many customers and projects, but theoretically only one platform. Projects come and go. However, platform being responsible for most of the code that determines basic functions, puts you at their mercy.

The infrastructure and base code was a huge deal. The other teams were fat... it does cut either way though.