What It’s Like Inside Big Tech Now: “Utterly Surreal To Watch The Deterioration”
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A big tech employee took to Twitter to speak out on what is currently going on inside of Big Tech.
According to the employee, Big Tech has fully gone “insanely radically leftwing.”
He details a demoralized industry with no more real innovation.
Here is the full Twitter thread:
Obviously insanely radically leftwing. BLM/LGBTQ. Trans flags hanging in office. Pronouns stated before meetings. Special affiliation groups for everyone but white men. All what you'd expect.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
There's constant talk, even now, about how hard things are for everyone. Often meetings start with going around the room to ask "How is everyone feeling?"
Literally everyone else went on sad rants about their lives. "I'm so MAD a white supremacist shot 3 black men in Kenosha!"
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
She made some argument about "vulnerability". These people not only want you weak, they want you to expose your vulnerabilities to them so they can exploit them.
They may not intend this explicitly, but whatever twisted ideology they worship ends with this result.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
I have some sympathy, and can feel some of this myself. It's normal and natural to work with people in-person.
WFH can make it easy to overwork. You take fewer breaks, often work past normal working hours.
You don't feel connected to customers or celebrate success in person.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
The Great Resignation is real. Many employees are leaving for better jobs. Remote work has (so far) resulted in more job opportunities for those working in Big Tech, especially outside of Silicon Valley.
And so we backfill those positions, or hire new people, all remote.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
…even meeting up with their friends at a restaurant.
The churn in jobs also has the major effect of constantly dealing with the overhead of re-assinging projects from people leaving, and onboarding new people.
The new employees don't get enough attention to succeed.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
While the Woke agitation has slowed due to the productive employees' ability to simply log off, in addition to the tiredness of the agitators, there is more and more open rebellion regarding pay and profits.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
You used to have to have the balls to knock on the CEOs office door, or schedule a meeting. Now you can fire off a nasty Slack message straight to her.
People will openly write threads and comments throughout Slack bad-mouthing the higher ups at the company. And they do nothing.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
And so the entire company has devolved.
We're running on the code written in years past. No major new product initatives are being launched.
Workers complain that they're understaffed and demoralized.
People take constant sick days, or don't show up at all without record.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
They came 10 minutes later. Said they slept in because they didn't have anything to work on.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
"Oh, I've had a hard week. Barely slept. Felt sick. Don't think I can handle much more this week."
There's no real accountability to anyone.
Record profits at the top, because of existing code and product-market fit cruising along, so leaders don't notice.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
ented minorities), because "life is really hard for them right now." This suggestion was from a lesbian white woman with cats.
As productive as one person can be, you can't add value when constantly thwarted. Nobody in IT doing tickets anymore to provision things for you…
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
This problem is the worst in Big Tech, so if Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon Prime, or Netflix go down, the world will probably be better off. It's not essential.
I worry about this apathy spreading to companies that matter. Ones that write software for utilities.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
…failing her Performance Improvement Program (PIP).
HR told us they can't fire her because she's Asian and female and in California, that it's just simply too hard.
This was over 5 years ago.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
…what drove him, and he said he just does it for the paycheck now.
I'm at that point. Lost the fire for career and collecting my paycheck for other purposes in life where the fire has been rekindled.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
I worked remote for 5 years at a prior job and this was never the case.
There's something special about this combo of remote and "your feelings are valid".
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
Things my coworkers spend an enormous amount of their day on:
– Coming up with a "clever" new Zoom background each day (something Harry Potter or Star Wars like children)
– Clever Slack emojis
– Reddit style responses in threads ("First!) and other low brow irony for the lulz.— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
She drove 2 high performing engineers straight out of the company. Totally demoralized a third.
Engineers who were able to switched managers, which overloaded the other managers.
Since she had so few direct reports, all new employees were assigned to her and had an awful first
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
Another example. I've interviewed many times wanting to leave, but every comparable company how has a "Diversity Panel" interview, which is just a matter of gatekeeping ideological purity at these companies.
They ask questions like: "Why is diversity important to you?" and…
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
People have increasingly been taking "Mental Health Days". Sometimes they're using sick days, many times they don't. It's just a free vacation, unaccountable.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
We have or have had policies were interview panels must have at least 1 woman, resulting in having unqualified interviewers rushed in to meet the quota.
Any white men who are in high-up decision making positions must have a BAME (black, asian, minority) partner sign off.
— Hazard Harrington (@HazardHarringto) January 14, 2022
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