My first job 25 years ago might have been with Westinghouse but I went to RCA. I was pretty proud to have options to join two of the biggest and most storied engineering firms in the country. Now neither even exist in reality. Indeed I think most of the major engineering giants of the mid 20th century exist now only as a hollow brand name owned by someone else to make their crappy cheap products seem to have some gravitas. Someday this is probably the fate of companies like Apple and Microsoft. It’s how these things go.
Apple is still a good engineering company. Microsoft never was and never will be.