Comment by bitexploder

You are right but it misses the flavor of the problem. I was a consultant in infosec to F500s for many years. Often solving a problem involves simply knowing the right person that has already thought about it or toiled on the problem or a similar one. But when there are 100,000 engineers it becomes an order of magnitude (or two!) more difficult and that puts forth unique challenges. You can still call them “people problems” and they often may be. However if you try to solve them the same way you might solve it at a smaller engineering org you will get and be nowhere and be poorer for the time you spent trying it. Ask me how I know lol. The technical problems are also like that. Almost everything has an analog or similar thing to what you are probably familiar with but it is scaled out, has a lot of unfamiliar edges and is often just different enough that you have to adjust your reasoning model. Things you can just do at even a typical f500 you can’t just do at big tech scale. Anyway, you are directionally correct and many of these wounds are self inflicted. But running a company like Google or Facebook is ridiculously hard and there are no easy answers, we just do our best.