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> It has an immensely combative energy for what is not really a charged subject matter. It becomes a charged subject matter when one works at companies like Go

• jchw 5y ago
  This is interesting. Not saying you are incorrect, but, I have worked at Google for a few years and didn't pick up on this, most people seem abundantly polite. But, I can just as easily chalk that up to limited experience, since there is clearly quite a lot of different things going on in any large company.
• ineedasername 5y ago
  Would this tone of expression be appropriate in navigating performance reviews? I mean the question honestly: My own answer is "no", but I don't know the culture of performance reviews at companies like that.
• Twirrim 5y ago
  > It becomes a charged subject matter when one works at companies like Google and Facebook and gets used to navigating performance reviews. The way things were at Amazon when I was there, posts like this would count against a Principal Engineer promotion. One of the standards engineers are expected to meet is "Respect what has gone before". You don't know the full details of what was going on at the time, you don't know the trade-offs and why, you don't know what they did and didn't know about the situation and what couldn't have been foreseen at the time decisions were made. Generally speaking people aren't idiots. They do the best they can with what they have, under the circumstances they're operating within, to meet the goals they have. Almost no one sets out to make a monster impossible to maintain, or with diabolical performance. Treat it with respect, even while you work to replace it.