With an addendum: it's not that they do "nothing", and that's the "problem". The end result is minimal, but the amount of work is still significant.
In any saner place it would amount to almost nothing, but for certain companies it is an Herculean task. And developers know it.
However due to the fact that the company hired thousand of coders, their communication overhead is now too massive. Their architecture also suffers due to the needs of handling those thousands of developers, so there's also a lot of work to be done in coding.
But the pressure is still there. Why hasn't your team changed the color of the button yet? "Why is it so hard?", "Why is it taking so long", etc etc
With an addendum: it's not that they do "nothing", and that's the "problem". The end result is minimal, but the amount of work is still significant.
In any saner place it would amount to almost nothing, but for certain companies it is an Herculean task. And developers know it.
However due to the fact that the company hired thousand of coders, their communication overhead is now too massive. Their architecture also suffers due to the needs of handling those thousands of developers, so there's also a lot of work to be done in coding.
But the pressure is still there. Why hasn't your team changed the color of the button yet? "Why is it so hard?", "Why is it taking so long", etc etc
Jokes have been made about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
The answer to all that was known since the 70s. Fred Brooks wrote a great book about all that.