At many companies, the Founders push their biases into company culture so strongly that it stays for a long time. For example, my sister (who is an accountant

At many companies, the Founders push their biases into company culture so strongly that it stays for a long time. For example, my sister (who is an accountant, although now she's a director in the Finance and Auditing department) works at a company in the insurance industry that was founded by folks in Sales --- and it shows. Previously, she worked at Motorola, and that was clearly run by engineers. HP and Digital Equipment Corporation are also companies which have their engineering founders bias engrained into corporate culture for a long time. Although HP's more recent CEO's have not been engineers (for example Fiorina was a salesperson, and look what she did to that company). But Qualcomm certainly seems to behave as if the Lawyers dictate all of their decisions, which has made me wonder if at least one of their founders was a lawyer.