As we've gotten larger, we've gotten slower in many ways. I think they're valid for the business but its frustrating as an individual.

We now have to run changes through legal to ensure global compliance as we're large enough to be a lawsuit target, especially in the EU where they're looking for US companies to make examples out of.

We have to run things through brand marketing and shared design teams to ensure we're acting as a consistent company despite actually being hundreds of teams. In fact, several years ago, we had a multi-year long initiative to introduce a single UI library across the company - before we had different UI design in different areas of our product.

One thing I find debatable is all the communication that takes several weeks or months before we can do anything. Getting all the stakeholders across different parts of the orgs together, incorporating their feedback, following up, etc. I think we could be nimbler in that regard and maybe some teams are.

There is of course added overhead of large engineering teams on older codebases, so development velocity slows but that feels more inevitable to me.