[chuck32]

It does seem that Silicon Valley used to have a hacker / technologist culture (think Steve Wozniak, Robert Noyce etc.) while now most of the new companies are often just traditional businesses but with slightly better tech and rebranded with nauseating slogans about grandiose missions to "change the world", "connect people", "give experiences" etc.

For most of these companies their mission statements and "company culture" are complete BS. Just look at how much tax these companies (think Apple, Facebook, Amazon etc.) pay to see if they are truly "progressive" and "forward-thinking" companies. They are not. And that hypocrisy trickles right down to the bottom.

Thats why its not surpising that in supposedly one of the most liberal and open-minded places in the world, sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination are rife.

I can't find this thread but there was a discussion about workplace discrimination and a transgender woman wrote that she had pretty much no problems working in a large corporate mid-west based company where the majority of employees were conservative and Christian but faced plenty of abuse and comments from co-workers when working for a more "open-minded" silicon valley style company with more of a "bro" culture.