I had an informal interview at Couchsurfing's SF office a few years ago. Having met the people behind today's CS, it all made sense why the site had completely

I had an informal interview at Couchsurfing's SF office a few years ago. Having met the people behind today's CS, it all made sense why the site had completely lost its magic. The employees I had lunch with spent most of the time dogging on the "technically incompetent hippies" that founded the company. The recruiter balked at my question about why they switched to Ruby on Rails, saying that, "anyone who thinks Ruby doesn't scale frankly doesn't know what they're talking about." My intent wasn't even to question the validity of the question, but the guy immediately got defensive. Everyone I talked to was drunk on the "startup culture" they were trying to latch onto. Every person talked about the great monetization opportunities. I had felt that CS had lost its magic many years before this interview, but the people running the company were the nail in the coffin for me.