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Likewise. I enjoyed my time there (well, until this blog post wound up on my radar!), but after a year it was time for me to go, so I resigned without much in the way of hard feelings.

I'm not at all pleased to discover today that we (and many like us) are now being painted as "disruptive," "miserable," and ultimately crappy employees. Expensify has just taken themselves from "Not what I ultimately wanted, but a good experience that I'd recommend to most folks who fit their model" to "company I'll actively steer people away from if they asked me."

I struggle and fail to understand the point of this blog post; did someone think this would be well received? Do they think it makes them look better than the average company? Is there now an internal sense of "achievement unlocked" that thrills them when the rest of the industry sees this as abhorrent? Their GlassDoor reviews are starting to seem a lot more ominous lately as well.

If you take a look at NetFlix, another company whose culture speaks to "top performers or get out," there's always been a sense that people who've left are still great people / employees. When someone leaves (voluntarily or not), the consensus and messaging becomes that it just wasn't a good fit, and they stand behind their former employees as being fantastic hires elsewhere.

This entire blog series / ad campaign just comes across as either profoundly deluded, or a desperate cry for attention.