Linden Labs only has 300 employees and a mostly rudimentary tech stack. I got to a final stage interview with them as a dev, and got the impression they were ve

Linden Labs only has 300 employees and a mostly rudimentary tech stack. I got to a final stage interview with them as a dev, and got the impression they were very down to earth. No leetcode questions, but some frank discussion of gameplay issues, ux they were trying to improve. I was struck by how much they knew about the game as a part of people's lives. They talked about players with mobility limitations whose entire lives are the game, and how important it was to support them. They're building an online bank to handle the flourishing ingame economy. People have full incomes from the game. It's hard to see these players uprooting to move to another platform, as much as someone might move cities IRL, just because someone built a nicer one, and abandon all of their friends and maybe their job.