&gt; If you let that culture fail you’ll end up like a post-2010 PayPal, a Pandora, a LinkedIn, a Dell, a GM, a 2000’s era Microsoft.<p>Having LinkedIn in this list seems a bit unfair. Yes I&#x27;m sure they have a lot of non-engineer employees (they&#x27;re making money and need salespeople, how dare they!) but something like Kafka doesn&#x27;t come out of a company with no engineering culture.