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I imagine there are startups like the one the OP is describing out there that are awful places to work and the OP is right to be annoyed at rookie recruiters tr

I imagine there are startups like the one the OP is describing out there that are awful places to work and the OP is right to be annoyed at rookie recruiters trying to use ego to persuade naive engineers. But the OP also seems to be a rather angry and bitter individual. That attitude is definitely going to keep any startup with a functional culture from hiring you. There is no way you'd want to take the risk of someone poisoning your culture by ranting about how bad everyone else is.

rayiner 14y ago
"Pretend everyone is great" smacks to me of the anti-competition fetishism in engineering hiring. The labor market votes with its feet. Articles like this serve the purpose of informing engineers and making them focus more on functional culture. He's not calling out companies specifically, he's speaking in general terms about things you should avoid, and that's valuable in ensuring that better companies have more success in hiring and worse companies are punished. More generally, engineers are in an enviable and almost certainly temporary situation where they have strong bargaining power in relation to employers. They should use that opportunity to extract as much value from companies while the situation lasts. When the shoe is on the other foot, that's exactly what the employers will be doing. It's only a matter of time before the bubble ends and the management consultants come in and teach companies how to extract the most value from their engineers while paying as little as possible.