Warning: personal rant first, maybe helpful point of view at the end:
rantish story
I work at a BIG Co (think 700k+ global employees) and we work for other Big(ish) Co as more or less data & code wrangling consultants.
How did I end here? I worked for a small(ish) agency with around 500 people. We moved fast, we build cool stuff, we already to worked for the Big Companies and Banks in our market (Germany). We were at a point were quite a few more formal processes would have been necessary to put into place to fulfill compliance regulations of different markets (think banking or automotive - these require a lot of stuff in terms of compliance from their vendors).
But we got lucky (?) and bought because BIG Co was not able to build their own agency - so they bought a lot of agencies to build a new one.
In the "good ol' days" I knew whom to ask to get anything done. There was an official process and the ones in the know knew how to navigate the short cut. Ask the right person, receive special treatment and be on your way flying fast.
OK - it made the process longer for the lowlies who didn't know the right people. And that is exactly the problem. There already was a two class society of workers. Because we already were too big for "no process" and too small for BIG Co process (and that drags us down nowadays). But the people following the process unbeknown to them got blocked by us knowing the shortcut.
So yeah - it feels shitty and slow and probably as if someone wants to gauge ones eyeballs out with a hot branding iron.
maybe helpful POV
But think of it like this:
Try to transport a 20 foot container on a high power speed boat. The speed boat will be way faster, more agile, more flexible. But if a somewhat bigger wave appears it will crash. And it will also not be able to deliver that much impact (containers) as the big ship once it arrives in the harbor.
rantish story
I work at a BIG Co (think 700k+ global employees) and we work for other Big(ish) Co as more or less data & code wrangling consultants.
How did I end here? I worked for a small(ish) agency with around 500 people. We moved fast, we build cool stuff, we already to worked for the Big Companies and Banks in our market (Germany). We were at a point were quite a few more formal processes would have been necessary to put into place to fulfill compliance regulations of different markets (think banking or automotive - these require a lot of stuff in terms of compliance from their vendors).
But we got lucky (?) and bought because BIG Co was not able to build their own agency - so they bought a lot of agencies to build a new one.
In the "good ol' days" I knew whom to ask to get anything done. There was an official process and the ones in the know knew how to navigate the short cut. Ask the right person, receive special treatment and be on your way flying fast.
OK - it made the process longer for the lowlies who didn't know the right people. And that is exactly the problem. There already was a two class society of workers. Because we already were too big for "no process" and too small for BIG Co process (and that drags us down nowadays). But the people following the process unbeknown to them got blocked by us knowing the shortcut.
So yeah - it feels shitty and slow and probably as if someone wants to gauge ones eyeballs out with a hot branding iron.
maybe helpful POV
But think of it like this:
Try to transport a 20 foot container on a high power speed boat. The speed boat will be way faster, more agile, more flexible. But if a somewhat bigger wave appears it will crash. And it will also not be able to deliver that much impact (containers) as the big ship once it arrives in the harbor.