Yeah, from small interactions over the past two decades, I have no idea how they could have been so bad while employing so many people. What on earth were those 30k people doing?! Their solutions were crap for ages.
There is a significant correlation between how many people you employ and how much nothing you accomplish. It means you've gotten big enough to survive long bouts of doing something and achieving nothing with large amounts of people.
It seems there's literally no correlation between people and what is accomplished.
Could be lawyers.
Would we be sad if they were lawyers?
Developers & QA are cost centres and liabilties.