A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company • Hacker News Board

Re: A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

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Post by newusr7h2 » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 2:55 AM UTC

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #10

For reference, the severance package was 4 months of salary for employees with =3 years of tenure at Coinbase. The severance also included 6 months of health insurance. (Source: https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-severance-apolitical-missi... ) What percentage of employees at Coinbase are actively interviewing for other jobs at any given time? 5%? If someone has one foot out the door already, taking a bonus equivalent…

I hope they provide some follow-up data on how many people took that package. My assumption is that it will be a small group. I think a lot of other companies could learn from the outcome.

Re: A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

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Post by CryptoPunk » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 4:05 AM UTC

randmeerkat wrote: post #765

CryptoPunk wrote: post #756

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That doesn't require a politicized workplace. Only a mission-focused one. One of Twitter's mission could very conceivably be to attach warnings to misinformation, irrespective of what political agenda it is intended to advance.

An argument could be made that this mission is politicising freedom of speech, in that a tech company is now determining what is misinformation and what is not. This very topic was a point of contention in the congressional antitrust hearings. A company operates in a political environment, whether or not people want to acknowledge that. Workers have real power and can advance their goals whether or not management wan…

I don't see how a tech company being the final arbiter on what is deemed misinformation on its own platform is politicizing free speech.

Yes you could stretch any argument to categorize anything as what you want, but I think under a reasonable interpretation of 'politicized workplace', Twitter could institute a policy of adding warnings to content it deems misinformation without politicizing its workplace.

As for workers having power, yes, but the company has the right to dictate what the worker does in their capacity as workers, if they choose to stay employed at the company.

Maintaining a mission focused company that doesn't allow employees to turn the company into a vehicle to advance a political cause unrelated to that mission is good for productivity.

Re: A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

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Post by matsemann » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 8:48 AM UTC

JPKab wrote: post #643

matsemann wrote: post #581

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But driving around with a bumper sticker and flashing one's view is not "bringing things up"?

I don't like her bumper sticker either, and I find political bumper stickers to be annoying. However, if I worked at an oil company, and had tons of very conservative co-workers, would you think it was ok for them to do the same thing to me if my wife pulled up and had rainbow/equality stickers on her car, or pro-choice stickers? I'm curious if you have a double standard on this topic due to prejudice against my wife…

To me it's not about the political point. But about the hypocrisy of one person pushing their political views and then getting annoyed when others respond.

Re: A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

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Post by jojo2333 » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 3:41 PM UTC

altdatathrow wrote: post #184

jojo2333 wrote: post #142

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Quite possible this could blacklist you from many other companies.

There are literally thousands upon thousands of companies hiring software engineers today.

and tons of engineers... whats your point?