> The first thing to know about Nest’s culture is that it’s a family. They expect loyalty, trust > Building and shipping hardware products requires an orchest

> The first thing to know about Nest’s culture is that it’s a family. They expect loyalty, trust > Building and shipping hardware products requires an orchestra, not a band. > Building a phenomenal, time-tested brand requires extreme discipline, and often, a relatively ... > The dedication to the brand is one of those things that as an employee can seem onerous and taxing ... > To me, doing great work is a habit, not an occasional outcome This article is a series of sound bytes with zero information on what it's actually like to work at nest. Sort of like this person's job at nest was more like a club where he was playing pool or something. Not sure what this guy did, but clearly it can't have had many stressful deliverables. According to his twitter page this person is a software engineer who moved to Product Management. I bet that a place like Apple and Nest is like that : nice and easy on project managers, very hard on engineers. A company like Google, by contrast, From their products, I expect that mostly the company sides with the engineers, not the PMs.