The title is a little self congratulatory and might confuse cause and effect. IMO many of the things listed are just side effects of this type of culture and t

The title is a little self congratulatory and might confuse cause and effect. IMO many of the things listed are just side effects of this type of culture and the culture is 99% decided by the existing culture at founding time and hiring processes. You can’t have a demo day without hiring intellectually curious people who like to share. You can’t pay a flat mid-tier salary with options that punish all late arrivers without just refusing to hire people that value their labor higher. I’ve seen this mistake made at many companies. The critical piece is your hiring, retention, and performance management. The rest of the stuff around meeting styles, knowledge exchanges, etc is all an emergent property of the team. Engineering culture cannot be engineered. You can cultivate it by pruning out the personalities you don’t like and figuring out how to select for the ones you do like, but that’s about it. Changing the culture otherwise is pushing a boulder uphill.