[hunvreus]

I'm not sure I have an accurate answer to this but let me try.

I feel like the younger companies have developed more aggressive engineering cultures. Tudou, Dianping, Douban seem to embrace more their technical side, when Baidu for example has more of a business and sales spin to it.

In particular, I've noticed this difference through;

- The involvement of these newer companies in OSS, tech event s...

- The reaction of local geeks towards these companies: you'll find a lot of young Chinese programmers who think Taobao is a pretty awesome company when it comes to tech, Baidu not so much (I think most of them refer to it as a sales company...).