Using bazel is nontrivial amount of effort (most of the open-source rules don't really work in a standard way due to the fact that google doesn't work in a standard way).
I guess with a 1K engineering company you can afford a substantial build team.
this is actually quite a lot better these days as the tooling adapts to integrate. go has always been the gold standard, but java/kotlin works very well and js/ts are much improved by rules_js.
