There's also the super-discriminatory and all-encompassing brogrammer culture, where job interviews are conducted more like fraternity rushes, and all manner of racism, sexism, and classism is justified with that magic phrase "culture fit".
Yeah, I thought so. You have no clue about what you are talking about. As someone who has multiple friends and family in the tech sector, including startups, that stereotype has no basis in reality.
That's nice. Care to explain
this or
this or
this or
this or... oh, f**k it, I could go on all day.
I dunno, maybe your circle is lucky. Maybe it's so much already a fit with that culture that it can't see the problem with it. But don't try to tell me there aren't problems.
And for what it's worth I'm not even all
that anti-SV compared to many folks here. I'll take their hegemony over the ExxonMobils and the WalMarts anyday; I don't go in for the misinformed knee-jerk pseudo-populist opposition that prefers million-dollar taxi medallions to plentiful mobility and thinks that restricting housing supply will magically make San Francisco cheaper. I'll defend tech when it deserves defending. But come
on, it's obvious to everyone everywhere that tech does have a culture problem, and is actively hypocritical on several fronts.
...
ETA:
From that same article (mods, feel free to cut down if I'm quoting too much, but preferably keep this bit):
Care to defend that? Care to explain it?
