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That's a very valid point, and I don't want to go too overboard in my criticism. However I don't think my assessment is wrong. If he really was the one pushing

by ohazi 7y ago

That's a very valid point, and I don't want to go too overboard in my criticism. However I don't think my assessment is wrong. If he really was the one pushing for this decision then I think he should be fired. It's not just about getting it so wrong when he should have known better, it's about ignoring all of the internal push-back from employees who were trying to prevent him from fucking it up the first place. Bullies in the C-suite should be removed. > but not really worse than I would expect from any misc C-level in any industry. This is my take as well, unfortunately, but I think it needs to change. There are loads of competent people who can perform these executive jobs. The bar should be higher.

prepend 7y ago
I don’t think making an executive decision is necessarily “bullying.” The nice thing about public comments and development is that you would see some non-hypothetical evidence of such action. I don’t think it’s unnatural for an OSS product dev team to think this way. I don’t like that they implemented it, but I think it’s positive they rolled it back. Firing a CEO for such a situation will result in worse software, I think. It won’t make the next CEO less likely to make a dumb mistake. But it will make them less likely to be public or to roll back changes. If the consequence of a fairly minor mistake (given GitLab’s history of super smart decisions in the past 10 years) is firing, then management will make sure nothing is ever considered a mistake again.
- DoctorOetker 7y ago
  >then management will make sure nothing is ever considered a mistake again. but it's ultimately the customers who decide if something was a mistake by switching to different products... hence company foots the bill
notimetorelax 7y ago
I think you’re making an assumption that there are executive level people who never make such mistakes. I like to look at this from a different angle - is this person capable of taking feedback and correcting their course. If yes, then you can work with them.

by ohazi 7y ago

prepend 7y ago

I don’t think making an executive decision is necessarily “bullying.” The nice thing about public comments and development is that you would see some non-hypothetical evidence of such action. I don’t think it’s unnatural for an OSS product dev team to think this way. I don’t like that they implemented it, but I think it’s positive they rolled it back. Firing a CEO for such a situation will result in worse software, I think. It won’t make the next CEO less likely to make a dumb mistake. But it will make them less likely to be public or to roll back changes. If the consequence of a fairly minor mistake (given GitLab’s history of super smart decisions in the past 10 years) is firing, then management will make sure nothing is ever considered a mistake again.

DoctorOetker 7y ago
>then management will make sure nothing is ever considered a mistake again. but it's ultimately the customers who decide if something was a mistake by switching to different products... hence company foots the bill

notimetorelax 7y ago

I think you’re making an assumption that there are executive level people who never make such mistakes. I like to look at this from a different angle - is this person capable of taking feedback and correcting their course. If yes, then you can work with them.