If you don't like the people in a company, don't take a job there. Astounding to me that it is controversial that people who are hired to do a job should be spending their time doing the job they are paid to do instead of debating with other employees about what their employers should be doing. I don't see anyone suggesting that employees can't contact HR, or write letters to those whose actual job it is to making hiring decisions, or have discussions with the coworkers on their own time. If you are a shareholder, and you want to have input on how the company is run, there are numerous avenues to do so. The sense of entitlement is crazy.

> If you don't like the people in a company, don't take a job there.

What if you do like them and so you want more of them? Maintaining culture doesn't happen on its own.

Note everyone's job is making hiring decisions, most companies don't have central hiring like Google does (and do they really?).

Minor nit, but afaik Basecamp does not include any sort of stock or equity as part of its compensation package.

This is true but I felt like this subthread was generalizing back to the rest of the industry. It looks like they're doing profit sharing as an alternative, which does make you feel responsible for the company doing well, but doesn't give you power to affect it in the same way.