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The two most striking points to me were a company where the employer can call the employee an asshole in front of HR. And a company where one employee hugs othe

The two most striking points to me were a company where the employer can call the employee an asshole in front of HR. And a company where one employee hugs other employees, including those who just fired him. It sounds like a very difficult place to set or maintain boundaries.

fapjacks 11y ago
To be honest, it feels like Github is a big social experiment (or game) masquerading as a company. I feel like going to work there would be to implicitly agree to be part of those experiments, and that -- exactly as you mention -- it would be hard to discover the rules of the game and even harder to continually abide by them while maintaining any sort of sense of individuality. I interview for fun in my spare time, and every once in a while I am invited to interview at a company that breeds a Borg-like hivemind which seems to consume all traces of individuality for whatever reason (usually I think this boils down to a volatile management environment). Google is one of those companies. Whisper (the "anonymous" social network) is another. And Github feels like it would easily reign supreme in that respect. I would not feel comfortable being myself in that environment for fear of breaking these unknowable boundaries, and it would affect my work.