Honestly, in my experience company loyalty in employees has less to do with outside financial incentives and much more to do with internal transparency and mutual respect at all levels of the company than compensation.
One of the main problems with the current startup culture is that everything is overly commoditized. For something to be considered a unicorn it has to fit a model, have a certain amount of growth, a certain amount of revenue, a certain number of employees. This hurts a lot of companies's success because it forces them to adhere to a model that's designed around a totally different organization, ironically the same thing that created "Startup Culture" in the first place.
I would and have much preferred working at companies where I liked my coworkers managers and reports rather than ones where I was simply paid more.
They could retitle this "In Defense of Cowboy Coding". Engineers that code this way become the owners of their codebase because nobody else wants to deal with their insane decisions.
One of the main problems with the current startup culture is that everything is overly commoditized. For something to be considered a unicorn it has to fit a model, have a certain amount of growth, a certain amount of revenue, a certain number of employees. This hurts a lot of companies's success because it forces them to adhere to a model that's designed around a totally different organization, ironically the same thing that created "Startup Culture" in the first place.
I would and have much preferred working at companies where I liked my coworkers managers and reports rather than ones where I was simply paid more.