I’ve worked in a few.
I could understand if each department had massive budgets that were spent in an idiotic manner due to inexperienced and incompetent leads.
I could understand it each department got less than the bare minimum, resulting in a final product that was mediocre despite strong individual contributors.
What I don’t understand is this mentality “hey let’s spend $200 million on this new TV Show, but only 2 million on the writing staff.”
I was in college when this happened. Absolutely nobody thought he could win until Florida was called. Trump himself seemed mildly surprised in his victory speech.