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As with most big companies, whether its a caustic environment or not really depends on which team you're working for. The culture instilled by your manager or
by srdev 15y ago
As with most big companies, whether its a caustic environment or not really depends on which team you're working for. The culture instilled by your manager or manager's manager is more powerful than the corporate culture as a whole.
- gruseom 15y agomore powerful than the corporate culture as a whole My experience has been the opposite, that a deviant subculture can't survive for long and is eventually rejected by the host.
- gujk 15y agoYou really think JeffB is walking around interviewing thousands of individual contributors and line managers, and firing the ones who are nice to each other? Senior management creates a culture for middle management. Middle management decides how to transmute that into the lower management community.
- grandinj 15y agoYou just said it - senior managmenent creates a culture for middle management, and that culture creates the culture for the techies. If it's corrosive at the top, it tends to end up corrosive at the bottom.
- gruseom 15y agoIf "culture" means anything, it refers to something self-sustaining. Initial conditions, which come from the founders, have a large influence. So do the values and behavior of leaders. Any development which is too deviant within an organization is eventually rejected the way an immune system rejects a foreign body. Culture is the agent in that process. That the rejection is executed by middle managers doesn't mean that they invented the culture any more than I personally manage my antibodies.