[jbail]

"Take your time and do it right" is Big Company Thinking

You'd be surprised.

My experience with Big Companies is that it's done "the wrong way" far more often than at the startups I've worked for.

The reasons for this are many, but none of them have anything to do with being able to afford it. You still have deadlines and managers who want stuff finished yesterday. More crucial than that, in my experience, Big Companies have far less capable talent as well as projects that have been marred by outsourcing adventures.

Again, only my experience, but I thought I'd share since it runs counter to yours.

[AnthonyMouse]

After I posted that I had seriously considered editing it to add the qualifier that it only applies to good big companies. Because the same stability and economies of scale that allow long-term investments and future proofing will under the wrong management instead provide a ready environment for inefficiency, laziness and incompetence to continue to exist for a long period of time without bankrupting the company.

[alexqgb]

In big companies, the idea that "there's no time to do it right" is often paired with the understanding that there's time to do it again, even if this rarely happens in practice.

Not having a runway or a burn rate to manage does a lot to increase the amount of "we'll just fix it later" thinking. Startups deal with technical debt as well, but there's a difference when it comes from a focus to get one thing absolutely right as opposed to a lack of interest in getting anything really right.