Beautiful article! And so on point.

Unfortunately, waste is not only avoided but even celebrated and promoted!

Several FAANG companies promote people only because they worked with several groups, they grew their head count and they even managed to work on non-issues and coin terms like "industry first" to justify its worth.

I had an experience where I was penalized and possibly had my promo chances gutted because we solved a tough problem through common sense and good instincts with the help of a single intern rather than bring in a specialized team of ML experts and increase our "visibility"!