It's not terrible, but it's not a great look to me. I don't think you need to hold to your previous employer's interests, though. The problem to me here is, OP

It's not terrible, but it's not a great look to me. I don't think you need to hold to your previous employer's interests, though. The problem to me here is, OP dumps on the work of their former colleges and the criticisms of MySQL aren't backed up and seem a little naive. E.g., only very useful software survives a long time with many users, and such software also very typically has major warts, especially looking from the inside. Reading between the lines and subtracting OPs tone, MySQL actually looks like it's in better shape than I would have thought: when OP arrived the optimizer was a mess. Now it's in good shape. Better yet, management is fully supportive and investing in major improvements. Awfully good for a long-lived open-source project. I might be a little skeptical that OP could thrive on Chrome, except that we all mature as our horizons widen.