1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

Post by b9a2cab5 » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 8:56 PM UTC

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #182

fleddr wrote: post #71

Just want to say how ridiculous this is from a European perspective. I know nothing better than for any company to be mission focused. You go to work to do work. And you do so with a degree of neutrality, as you can't pick your colleagues, yet still need to cooperate with them. This doesn't mean you can't say anything at all, it means you shouldn't be overly divisive or confrontational. A company isn't your personal…

> I work in a tech hub in Europe that has 80 nationalities, people from all walks of life. Any ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, religion and political conviction you can think of and we all get along just fine with zero tensions. I’m sure this statement is not true, (racism and sexism don’t exist in Europe now?) but even supposing it is, there are very few companies in the U.S. that are this diverse. And the state…

Post by b9a2cab5 » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

ctur wrote: post #56

I wrote this in an email turning down a chance explore opportunities at Coinbase. > To me, diversity and social justice are critically important. I have the luxury of being selective in where I put my time and energy and it is important those values align with my career. I appreciate aspects of being "mission focused" but I think that there is a gulf between my personal values and Coinbase's values such that I would…

Post by bogomipz » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #203

afavour wrote: post #114

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As a European living and working in the US: your comparison is very shortsighted. European countries literally have no legal concept of at-will employment. They have strong social nets that make quitting your job much easier, and more prevalent unions that fight to improve working conditions (all of these things are, gasp, political! incidentally) By comparison employment in the US is messed up enough that if you lea…

> Companies with great policies can sometimes retain employees on that basis alone! So I recently quit a FAANG and they sent me a COBRA notice with the cost of their insurance benefit. You can get great FAANG insurance for about $10k a year, which is peanuts for a Silicon Valley engineer. We need to dispel the myth that Silicon Valley engineers are working for health insurance.

Post by azornathogron » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 9:04 PM UTC

malermeister wrote: post #29

emsy wrote: post #12

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Why do people think work is an appropriate place for political activism?

Everything you do is implicitly political. To say you're non-political is just another political position itself - complicity with the status quo.

Post by tptee » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

exolymph wrote: post #14

tptee wrote: post #7

If the mission was to expel all of your black employees...mission accomplished I guess

"One of the biggest concerns around our stance was that it would impact our diversity numbers. Since my post, we've grown our headcount about 110%, while our diversity numbers have remained the same, or even improved on some metrics." What that means in terms of black employees precisely, idk. But isn't it kinda racist to assume black people are a monolith with universally shared opinions? I can assure you that's not…