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As someone who once worked there and left to grow as an engineer, I'm not wild about the part where everyone who ever quit expensify: > did so when they found

As someone who once worked there and left to grow as an engineer, I'm not wild about the part where everyone who ever quit expensify: > did so when they found their peers increasingly unwilling to tolerate to their disruptive attitudes, and thus less fun to work with — misery loves company, and if your peers aren’t as miserable as you, you leave to find others who are.

kafkaesq 10y ago
That's actually quite a precious and very telling quote. He's basically saying that if you're less than entirely happy with Expensify (or your particular corner of it), then it's obviously because you're a flaming asshole -- and are just starting to realize it.
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peterbonney 10y ago
Yes, this was pretty... something. Lord knows no one ever left a job because they were passionate about something else, or had a life change, or had a medical issue, or went to graduate school, or moved, or...
- greenyoda 10y ago
  ... or had a crappy manager.
  - peterbonney 10y ago
    Well all of Expensify's managers are 10X managers, so if the employee doesn't like them the employee must be the problem. Q.E.D.
KB1JWQ 10y ago
Likewise. I enjoyed my time there (well, until this blog post wound up on my radar!), but after a year it was time for me to go, so I resigned without much in the way of hard feelings. I'm not at all pleased to discover today that we (and many like us) are now being painted as "disruptive," "miserable," and ultimately crappy employees. Expensify has just taken themselves from "Not what I ultimately wanted, but a good experience that I'd recommend to most folks who fit their model" to "company I'll actively steer people away from if they asked me." I struggle and fail to understand the point of this blog post; did someone think this would be well received? Do they think it makes them look better than the average company? Is there now an internal sense of "achievement unlocked" that thrills them when the rest of the industry sees this as abhorrent? Their GlassDoor reviews are starting to seem a lot more ominous lately as well. If you take a look at NetFlix, another company whose culture speaks to "top performers or get out," there's always been a sense that people who've left are still great people / employees. When someone leaves (voluntarily or not), the consensus and messaging becomes that it just wasn't a good fit, and they stand behind their former employees as being fantastic hires elsewhere. This entire blog series / ad campaign just comes across as either profoundly deluded, or a desperate cry for attention.
flukus 10y ago
This seems like the corporate version of arguing over who dumped who in a relationship.

kafkaesq 10y ago

That's actually quite a precious and very telling quote. He's basically saying that if you're less than entirely happy with Expensify (or your particular corner of it), then it's obviously because you're a flaming asshole -- and are just starting to realize it.

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peterbonney 10y ago

Yes, this was pretty... something. Lord knows no one ever left a job because they were passionate about something else, or had a life change, or had a medical issue, or went to graduate school, or moved, or...

greenyoda 10y ago
... or had a crappy manager.
- peterbonney 10y ago
  Well all of Expensify's managers are 10X managers, so if the employee doesn't like them the employee must be the problem. Q.E.D.

KB1JWQ 10y ago

Likewise. I enjoyed my time there (well, until this blog post wound up on my radar!), but after a year it was time for me to go, so I resigned without much in the way of hard feelings. I'm not at all pleased to discover today that we (and many like us) are now being painted as "disruptive," "miserable," and ultimately crappy employees. Expensify has just taken themselves from "Not what I ultimately wanted, but a good experience that I'd recommend to most folks who fit their model" to "company I'll actively steer people away from if they asked me." I struggle and fail to understand the point of this blog post; did someone think this would be well received? Do they think it makes them look better than the average company? Is there now an internal sense of "achievement unlocked" that thrills them when the rest of the industry sees this as abhorrent? Their GlassDoor reviews are starting to seem a lot more ominous lately as well. If you take a look at NetFlix, another company whose culture speaks to "top performers or get out," there's always been a sense that people who've left are still great people / employees. When someone leaves (voluntarily or not), the consensus and messaging becomes that it just wasn't a good fit, and they stand behind their former employees as being fantastic hires elsewhere. This entire blog series / ad campaign just comes across as either profoundly deluded, or a desperate cry for attention.

flukus 10y ago

This seems like the corporate version of arguing over who dumped who in a relationship.