I have loved tech and been in the industry for a long time. To me, the article was one giant WTF from start to finish. It described a culture an iota short of

I have loved tech and been in the industry for a long time. To me, the article was one giant WTF from start to finish. It described a culture an iota short of entirely alien to my own experiences, in an area bounded roughly by Madison, Wisconsin; Nashua, New Hampshire; Orlando, Florida; and Memphis, Tennessee. When my employers have served up the corporate Flavor-Ade, my co-workers and I sipped politely, then discreetly took turns purging it in the bathrooms and pouring our cups out into the potted plants. Even when I did my tour in a startup, the culture-forcing was never that cringe-inducing. We all knew that it was the boss's job to sell the bullshit to the investors, and our job was to give him something to sell, rather than buy it all ourselves. I think this may be more about San Francisco/Silicon Valley culture than it is about tech culture. To anybody for whom this article resonated a little too strongly, you might be better off doing exactly the same work in an earlier time zone, in places less dominated by the billionaire boys' club. I love tech, but I can't imagine anyone loving technology so much that they can stand to work in a culture that warps it into shapes bizarre, sad, or repulsive. Is all the extra pay and extra career opportunity worth it? Every time SF/SV culture comes up, someone always does the calculation where someone who can just suck it up for a few years comes out leagues ahead financially. But isn't the goal to be happy?