[phendrenad2]

You need 1000 engineers because you have poor engineering leadership, or no engineering leadership, and engineering is a black hole that management shovels money into where it falls directly onto a huge plane of middle managers who do the best they can with their limited power and understanding. Meanwhile your sales team is writing specifications for the next version of the product, which they already promised to customers, and they hired an outside consultant to transform it into 500 spec documents written in damn near legalese, which will appear one day on the lead engineer's desk with no foreshadowing. It turns out that throwing more engineers at the problem helps here because you'll run out of tasks to assign to all of them and some will roam the halls and accidentally connect distributed knowledge back together.