The CEO posted in a company chat that pentesting newly written code before pushing it live is "bullshit and loser thinking".
Sounds so juvenile, worse than a teenager. Unfit for running a company dealing with secure mail.
Sounds so juvenile, worse than a teenager. Unfit for running a company dealing with secure mail.
The new upstart CEO taking on Hooli and making those comments ("bullshit and loser thinking")
Gavin Belson get's wind of it and out of fear implements their new AI policy: "Straight to Ship". Anything the engineers can think of just gets generated and immediately deployed with auto-marketing (with obvious humorous results).
Mostly because it's tends to be really obvious a company/individual is still deliberately cultivating a specific image, just with a different spin/target demographic than the stereotypically sterile, formal variant of corporate PR. But so many people eat it up.
In this case, doing a garden variety Elon-wannabe persona that's currently in vogue among the SV founder set. It's a really uncreative, lazy move for leaders doing cargo cult management. And cringe-y in general to imagine working for someone who unironically resembles the most over the top satire of tech leaders on HBO's Silicon Valley.
We've had 15+ years of hyper HR cancel culture espoused by Simon Sinek, Linked In and so on.
Perhaps this is just reversion to the mean?
One of my first bosses would throw keyboards at me and cuss me out nearly every hour. One of my favorites, in hindsight. Great guy. Just passionate, and overworked.
Learn not to jump to conclusions.
More than a couple of people with that attitude at any workplace and it's definitely not fun for almost everyone else.