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I have a slightly irrational fear that companies that spend a ton of energy outwardly talking about their culture are the ones with the most insufferable cultur
by dawhizkid 9y ago
I have a slightly irrational fear that companies that spend a ton of energy outwardly talking about their culture are the ones with the most insufferable culture.
My hypothesis is that these companies are overly obsessed with defining a “mold” of the type of person that belongs at the company, and if you slightly deviate from that mold then you’re disproportionately punished for it.
- dotBen 9y agoI think the Occam's razor perspective here is that an engineering job at most of these companies is 90% the same, same-ish pay, same-ish equity, sort of mission-driven-but-not-really work, etc. What breaks a company out of commoditization is often culture and so companies will go to great length to demonstrate their differentiator. (as a former founder and hiring manager at a bigger company who has spent a lot of time doing this in both settings)