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This. You sometimes have to reroll the dice a few times before you find a place with a good culture.

Personally I've found that I'm most comfortable at a place where people have a deep discipline they have specialized into. Companies doing robotics or genomics or machine learning are great. There's more respect for software engineers. Companies doing an "app" or a "SaaS" aren't my favorite. You meet a lot of perpetual beginner "experts" who warp the culture into a respect being based on who can cargo cult fastest.