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Basing a company's culture on Blind comments is like basing it on the movie Office Space. Sure there's a subset of scenarios that mimic them, but they're both u

• volkk 2y ago
  i do understand its a generalization, but it's not just Blind. Culmination of personal experiences, too. I've worked with a lot of these types of folks. I also highly disagree with this analogy. One is a fictional, creative work of art set to make fun of the corporate world, and the other is an active forum with actual people that work at these places. It's completely fair to judge based on an anon forum (where people can transparently spill their biases/views without any repercussion). Also, a lot of them are in leadership positions and it takes only 1 or 2 to set a culture for a team and eventually a department. Blind also leaks into many many other areas because it has become so famous. At what point can you say that maybe there's a problem endemic to FAANG? prime example: my last company decided they wanted to become more of a "mature company" and start hiring these geniuses and got someone to lead product from FAANG. He came, did some very fancy pontification (i.e would never let anyone else speak and fill the room with his opinions). Stayed for a year (guessing he got his 25% cliff), delivered literally nothing, and moved back to FAANG to a higher position (VP) and is now probably making a solid 2MM in TC. What a sweet life. I would pay a lot of money to be a fly on the wall of those interviews and how much bs was said with what he did at my last company to get that VP job.