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Engineering Culture Premium Mar 15, 2026

How Big Tech Runs Projects — And the Curious Absence of Scrum

An inside look at how Meta, Google, and Amazon actually ship software — and why most teams abandoned Scrum years ago.

After interviewing 40+ engineering leaders at FAANG companies, a clear pattern emerged: the way big tech runs projects looks nothing like what most startups copy from blog posts. What you see in conference talks — two-week sprints, daily standups, story point poker — is largely absent inside the companies everyone claims to emulate.

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