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by anonexnester 3744 days ago
I used to work there, not very long ago. When the last HN thread happened where someone mentioned PTSD from Tony's yelling, I was thinking to myself 'wow that's stretching it'. A day later I realized I had been in the same boat all along, with mini-Tony's on my team (boy were they worshipped as stars..), and the only thing that had prevented me from accepting that PTSD remark was association as I still worked there. I quit soon after and while I have a new job with a nice team, it has taken quite a bit of therapy to get over the scars from micromanagement, f-bomb language and other artefacts.
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Tony is most definitely /not/ a leader. Firsthand experience here from what amounted to an attempted takeover of another team inside of Google. He came, said our work was shit, said we were going to start from scratch, and shortly after, lost nearly the entire software division.