Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
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Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
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Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
#2I had a one hour phone interview one of their engineering managers a few years ago and I thought everything was going well but he said to my face that I'm not a suitable candidate for then. I don't know about their work culture.
Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
#3> Bezos, who recently stepped down as chief executive of Amazon, also owns The Washington Post.
I like how they hide this statement several paragraphs into the article. Suddenly I have to ask if I am getting the entire story. Surely there is a better source for this story?
Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
#4It's not at all surprising there would be a counterproductive culture. Rockery isn't commerce. The management style which may result in excellence in commerce isn't the same that will do well in rocketry. It stems from Bezos and we know all the bad complaints that has produced.
That said, can we get away from lazy shortcuts like 'bro culture' even if it's a juicy quote? Imagine someone said hick culture or urban culture, fem culture, whatever. It may be true in some way but try and use understandable adjectives rather then ones the reader has to fill and load with meaning.
Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
#5Very interesting considering both WP and BO are owned by the same boss ...
Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
#6> Bezos, who recently stepped down as chief executive of Amazon, also owns The Washington Post. I like how they hide this statement several paragraphs into the article. Suddenly I have to ask if I am getting the entire story. Surely there is a better source for this story?
Regardless of how impartial the journalism may be on the story, this does seem like something you'd put in a disclaimer at the top of the story.
Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
#7I had a one hour phone interview one of their engineering managers a few years ago and I thought everything was going well but he said to my face that I'm not a suitable candidate for then. I don't know about their work culture.
Do you consider it a bad thing that he said that "to your face" rather then receiving a generic rejection letter (or being ghosted)?
Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
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#9> Bezos, who recently stepped down as chief executive of Amazon, also owns The Washington Post. I like how they hide this statement several paragraphs into the article. Suddenly I have to ask if I am getting the entire story. Surely there is a better source for this story?
It's a pretty negative article. What do you think they might be hiding? That things are even worse than described? If they were trying to hide something, they would have never drawn attention to this matter by killing the article in the first place.
Re: Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
#10> Bezos, who recently stepped down as chief executive of Amazon, also owns The Washington Post. I like how they hide this statement several paragraphs into the article. Suddenly I have to ask if I am getting the entire story. Surely there is a better source for this story?
I’d venture to bet WaPo has a left-leaning subscriber base that is at least somewhat critical of Bezos. They’re limited in how much astroturfing they can do versus a free newspaper that only relies on ads.