It was only 2006 when I worked at Oracle, I moved to Google in 2009, it’s not like a sea change in sexual harassment reform happened between those years. Oracl

It was only 2006 when I worked at Oracle, I moved to Google in 2009, it’s not like a sea change in sexual harassment reform happened between those years. Oracle was a worse environment than Google in many ways, this is not nostalgia. Political infighting between teams was far worse, to the point that you’d have people yelling in meetings and then deliberately backstabbing and undermining other teams. On a trip I went to Helsinki, they arranged naked Finnish sauna with beer and made no provision for the females with us, some who were from traditionally conservative cultures. After the sauna, they took the men to a strip club with Estonian and Russian strippers. I walked the female team members back to the hotel. Startup companies in the Bay Area of course don’t have these processes, many of them don’t even have a legal or HR department if they have less than 50 people. The toxic bro culture of SV startups has been well documented by female journalists, a lot of it stemming from the VCs themselves. Google has 90000 people now, no one is irreplaceable, except maybe Jeff Dean :).