Anecdotally I work for a fairly large (~4k employee) company that has a laughable amount of "cargo cult" positions (I'd even say departments). I often find myself replaying the scene from Office Space "What would you say...you do here?"

So HN, how much of your company do you think is actually needed to function? (1) https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/elon-musk-bbc-interview-twitter-intl-hnk/index.html