In the US, or at least the west coast, the developer community is tied to the broader ecosystem and not the particular company where you work. When I worked in

In the US, or at least the west coast, the developer community is tied to the broader ecosystem and not the particular company where you work. When I worked in Silicon Valley, there was a saying that you don't work for "the company", you work for "the Valley". And it very much felt that way. Companies were ad hoc gatherings of talent within a larger close-knit software community. The tech companies generally understood this. This dynamic lead to rich cross-fertilization of ideas and talent between companies. Socialization happened at the ecosystem level, not the company level, and I think it is probably a healthier than tightly coupling professional socialization with a company.