Even the first item on this list is hotly contested, with Facebook/Microsoft/Google and Co. using centralised mono-repos, google itself using a server model similar to Perforce called Piper.
To be clear here, I’m not saying they’re right, but with it feels un-scientific to make a blanket statement that they’re wrong.
> 1. Do you use a distributed version control system?
Edit: the parent originally said “distributed build system”
I'd also seriously question an org not using git, specifically, despite claiming "cargo cult". Literally every developer knows it, it's got a huge choice of tooling, and every service/tool (CI/CD, issue tracker, etc) has an integration. IMHO, you better have a damn good reason to be on something else to justify the headaches involved of being not git.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/24/microsoft-now-uses-git-and...
Sounds like it's git but begrudgingly.
That's a very damning statement. Many places use perforce, for example.
Git doesn't handle binaries and frankly git struggles to scale. Try checking out a _large_ git repo and running some common operations on it.