The most important component of a technology company is its engineering culture. This is something that is built early, most of the time with a strong influenc

The most important component of a technology company is its engineering culture. This is something that is built early, most of the time with a strong influence from the founders/CTO. Once it is built and scaled up, it can still change but very slowly. You can hire extremely talented outsiders (John Carmack) but it won't do much. A company like Meta is like an overfitted AI model, they can do one thing very well and almost everything else very bad. Take a look at horizon universe, does it look like state of the art for you?