"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.
That probably says more about the mythological status they had before than about the reality now, but it of course will have an impact on their ability to hire though.
It also should have, and it's normal, and it's how startups turn into big-corps, and that's just the way things are.
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.