"The sad truth about culture is that a sustainable culture will feel much more like your parents home than your college dorm; and that will never change... because it's a good thing."
That is the single best line I've read about work culture in software companies in......ever.
This does depend on how dysfunctional your parents' marriage was. Though, I suppose a marriage in which both partners feel trapped is sustainably dysfunctional in that it won't end.
That is the single best line I've read about work culture in software companies in......ever.