[twelfthnight]

Mostly agree, although I think "good" engineering culture is so incredibly rare that it feels strange to call it "good" and everything else "bad". It's more like "regular" engineering culture vs "exceptional" culture.

In my experience I think the larger any team gets the more likely the team is to hire "regular" engineers and the quality regresses to the mean. So it's only a small set of specialized teams with unusual luck and control over hiring that can become "exceptional".