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Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by ok_dad »

Solvitieg wrote: post #287
ok_dad wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t care about the initial trigger much, mostly that the CEO’s first response to a possible employee problem was that it was dumb and to threaten his employees over it. Not a great look regardless of whether it was one employee, zero, or several hundred. Leaders should have much more compassion than this.

That's fair. I guess I'm just frustrated at these "tech writers" for re-posting unverified information from Blind and then needing to walk it back later. It's unprofessional and risky.

Too bad Mr. Armstrong didn't choose to keep his mouth shut for a bit longer, to verify if the claims were from actual employees. Alternatively, he could have made a single tweet:

"I am aware of the open letter published today that was claimed to be from Coinbase empoyees. We will do our best to verify this and also respond to those employees internally to try and solve any issues they have with the direction of our company. I appreciate all feedback from Coinbase employees, positive or negative."

Then deal with this internally.

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by jcims »

hardware2win wrote: post #272
jcims wrote: post #111

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I'm curious why Zoom doesn't get more shine. In my opinion they were tested like few other companies in history at the start of the pandemic and seem to have pulled it off. My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed. I won't say there were zero issues but the number definitely rounds to zero.…

> My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed Do i understand it correctly? 60k ppl left ur job and went to zoom?

I could have stated that more clearly. 60k people started working from home full time and we switched completely away from our existing solution to Zoom as the primary service provider for teleconferencing.

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by thaway2839 »

fathyb wrote: post #10

Initiatives like the Dot Collector and the Performance review system that has led to a toxic workplace culture I was curious about that "Dot Collector": Dot collector was an application invented by Ray Dalio’s hedge fund and Bridgewater Associates. The application has set its foot in Coinbase since the start of the year and has been in use by the HR and IT teams of the company. The user interface of the app is quite…

Sounds like a better, potentially more useful, form of peer review?

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by sangnoir »

eatmycoin wrote: post #319
residentcoder wrote: post #311

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>Which you replied to with a very apathetic and condescending Well, he did say he felt offended that he wasn't included in the list. >You should have used this as an opportunity to make your employees believe they made the right choice Brian is doing that here. Except he is appealing to the employees that aligns with him and his choice of people for exec leadership. You seem to assume that a vast majority of the empl…

There are a lot of people that agree with the petitioner, but employees aren’t given an open forum to talk about internal problems. If you talk about things that are wrong too much with your manager, you get marked down for not being positive. There’s no “free speech” internally and it is a pretty oppressive environment in that it doesn’t feel safe to express yourself to anyone.

Was Coinbase the company that paid-off employees to leave when it implemented the "no politics at work" policy? I had my suspicions that this would result in chilling /suppression of dissent as "politics".

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by thr0w__4w4y »

wonderwonder wrote: post #303
barmstrong wrote: post #271

Responded here https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/15353049437284147...

This response reminds me of a company in the cannabis software space where recently the engineers put together a letter essentially saying they were not happy with the work environment, that the company was focused on the wrong things and that the CTO was not doing a good job. It was signed by 10 out of 12 engineers I think. They got no response. 2 weeks later they had layoffs and got rid of every engineer that signe…

What is cannabis software?

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by hazyc »

ok_dad wrote: post #331
Solvitieg wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fair. I guess I'm just frustrated at these "tech writers" for re-posting unverified information from Blind and then needing to walk it back later. It's unprofessional and risky.

Too bad Mr. Armstrong didn't choose to keep his mouth shut for a bit longer, to verify if the claims were from actual employees. Alternatively, he could have made a single tweet: "I am aware of the open letter published today that was claimed to be from Coinbase empoyees. We will do our best to verify this and also respond to those employees internally to try and solve any issues they have with the direction of our c…

A+. Nothing more needed to be said.

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by wonderwonder »

thr0w__4w4y wrote: post #338
wonderwonder wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This response reminds me of a company in the cannabis software space where recently the engineers put together a letter essentially saying they were not happy with the work environment, that the company was focused on the wrong things and that the CTO was not doing a good job. It was signed by 10 out of 12 engineers I think. They got no response. 2 weeks later they had layoffs and got rid of every engineer that signe…

What is cannabis software?

Software to track cannabis sales and inventory for both commercial and regulatory purposes. Required by some US states.
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