Ask HN: How often do you see duplicated work in your company?

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I've worked at multiple companies and see duplicated efforts all the time. It's honestly good to some degree to have competing products, but I was curious how often some of the HN crowd has seen it as well?

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How large a company? This is a communication issue and thus should be very rare in a small company where no department is larger than a single 7-10 person team. It's undoubtedly extremely common in companies with departments of thousands.

A coworker and I are working on the same feature "in parallel" as my boss put it. We don't communicate or exchange ideas. Not sure how the "winning" solution will be chosen.

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