Capital-T "Tech companies" can uniquely provide engineers with a sense of 'code ownership' because engineers actually own the company. This control is given bec

Capital-T "Tech companies" can uniquely provide engineers with a sense of 'code ownership' because engineers actually own the company. This control is given because of the expectation that it will accelerate the company's growth. If growth is less of a goal, less control is given, and the role of engineer tends to be more of a wage slave type of role, where as much value is extracted from the employee as possible over a very short timespan and not much thought is given to transformational growth. You'll notice even in tech companies that have matured, they tend to lose the engineer ownership, modern tech, and collaboration. They trend towards your typical hourly job that people are not personally invested in. This is a natural consequence of not being employee-owned, and also of not having much of a transformational future in store. Of course, it's possible for an agriculture company to exist and be employee-owned. But without the 10x growth, it's not really a "Tech company" and you'll have a very different experience of the working conditions, amount of control/ownership, etc.