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Re. employees not showing up to defend the company: I always find it weird when people do that. There are only downsides to speaking about your company publicly

by rp1 5y ago

Re. employees not showing up to defend the company: I always find it weird when people do that. There are only downsides to speaking about your company publicly.

ljm 5y ago
It's enough to just have execs stepping in IMO, since they are pretty much top of the ladder. The only thing I'll learn from random Stripe employees is commentary in the vein of "works on my machine!" Disgruntled ex-employees will leave bad feedback, people who have invested a lot of themselves in the company will leave good feedback (and perhaps not even see some of the problems others see).
antoniuschan99 5y ago
Since there were throwaway accounts speaking negatively about the company, I was looking for the opposite, throwaway accounts (from employees) speaking positively about the company. Not sure if they ended up posting but when I was reading the thread there weren't any.
_moof 5y ago
Indeed. There's also the question of whether it's worth the effort. Most of what I've read here about companies I've worked for has been, shall we say, imaginative. Occasionally it's been downright conspiracy theory. When I've been tempted to try to set the record straight, after thinking it through I find--forgive me if this comes across as cynical--that the amount of work it would take far outweighs how much I care what strangers think about the things I work on. It's much easier, and probably healthier, just to close the tab and carry on with more important things. (In spite of this I confess that I devoured the Stripe thread alongside a heaping bowl of popcorn. Some combination of Gell-Mann amnesia and a vulgar taste for tabloid gossip, I guess.)
- hyperxy 5y ago
  I thought it was more than a little bizarre, in a thread where people are tlaking about being brain raped by the brothers (YC pr had me convinced, too, I had no clue), the YC people that show up to defend him are: the CEO of Coinbase, a guy that's know for running a scam and defending himself on Twitter (rebranded) and that PG had the nerve to defend in essay about "Haters", and the lead mod, who isn't obviously a mod until he is. What kind of people are you guys attracti9ng? They all this unaware? I'm just an outsider, but you all look like you are full of shit.

by rp1 5y ago

Re. employees not showing up to defend the company: I always find it weird when people do that. There are only downsides to speaking about your company publicly.

ljm 5y ago

It's enough to just have execs stepping in IMO, since they are pretty much top of the ladder. The only thing I'll learn from random Stripe employees is commentary in the vein of "works on my machine!" Disgruntled ex-employees will leave bad feedback, people who have invested a lot of themselves in the company will leave good feedback (and perhaps not even see some of the problems others see).

antoniuschan99 5y ago

Since there were throwaway accounts speaking negatively about the company, I was looking for the opposite, throwaway accounts (from employees) speaking positively about the company. Not sure if they ended up posting but when I was reading the thread there weren't any.

_moof 5y ago

Indeed. There's also the question of whether it's worth the effort. Most of what I've read here about companies I've worked for has been, shall we say, imaginative. Occasionally it's been downright conspiracy theory. When I've been tempted to try to set the record straight, after thinking it through I find--forgive me if this comes across as cynical--that the amount of work it would take far outweighs how much I care what strangers think about the things I work on. It's much easier, and probably healthier, just to close the tab and carry on with more important things. (In spite of this I confess that I devoured the Stripe thread alongside a heaping bowl of popcorn. Some combination of Gell-Mann amnesia and a vulgar taste for tabloid gossip, I guess.)

hyperxy 5y ago
I thought it was more than a little bizarre, in a thread where people are tlaking about being brain raped by the brothers (YC pr had me convinced, too, I had no clue), the YC people that show up to defend him are: the CEO of Coinbase, a guy that's know for running a scam and defending himself on Twitter (rebranded) and that PG had the nerve to defend in essay about "Haters", and the lead mod, who isn't obviously a mod until he is. What kind of people are you guys attracti9ng? They all this unaware? I'm just an outsider, but you all look like you are full of shit.