I wouldn’t know, but it was certainly presented as a “general feel,” and, anecdotally, almost every interaction that I’ve personally had with “modern” tech comp

I wouldn’t know, but it was certainly presented as a “general feel,” and, anecdotally, almost every interaction that I’ve personally had with “modern” tech companies (in fact, with one, it resulted in a multimillion-dollar disaster), have shown me that “feel.” The disaster I mentioned was particularly heartbreaking, because the tech was solid, and the people behind it, were good, but they absolutely refused to give respect to Quality, and everything went to shit. Just look at the way any discussion of Quality Development gets treated on HN. This very post nosedived, ten minutes after it posted. The only reason that it’s still around, is because it must have been “second-chanced.”