Toxic and Woke Engineering Orgs

By Medium - 2020-12-15

Description

Why are organizations committed to positive ideals so often shitty to their employees?

Summary

  • I have a checklist of things I talk to new hires joining my team about during our first 1:1. on call rotations may trigger pages during what would normally be non-work hours, travel days might be on weekends, people might work longer hours leading up to a deadline (although here the key thing to define is how often that can happen before it’s a problem.
  • Some people are liberal except for a few key issues.
  • This is more prevalent in organizations that claim to be mission or value driven because people convince themselves that for the sake of the mission they must endure it.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.31)
  2. Machine_Learning (0.08)
  3. Security (0.04)

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