Interesting that you comment on that. One ex-Cisco engineering friend of mine went to both Facebook and Google. I think the CEO does set the tone of which typ

Interesting that you comment on that. One ex-Cisco engineering friend of mine went to both Facebook and Google. I think the CEO does set the tone of which types of employees a company values. I recall a quote (I thought was Joel Spolsky or Bill Gates) around why the CEO of a tech company needs to be an engineer. It's basically that only they can understand the important technical details to make big changes in corporate strategies. There's also a component of knowing who to value.