There's more caveats. Top down companies (which I believe all big tech companies have turned into) have a different class of problems that isn't addressed in TFA - politics, territorialism and history. TFA does not mention them or any any opinions on them either.
In BigCo. finding problem and the technical solution dwarfs in comparison to the effort and skill required to find the people who you're going to offend with your brilliance, the beneficiaries of said problems and who their reporting chain is and their incentive structures and the art of framing solutions using terms that they and their bosses understand in entirety.
In BigCo. finding problem and the technical solution dwarfs in comparison to the effort and skill required to find the people who you're going to offend with your brilliance, the beneficiaries of said problems and who their reporting chain is and their incentive structures and the art of framing solutions using terms that they and their bosses understand in entirety.