| Note that the article you cite also reports Riot as being one of the best places to work (according to Fortune) and indeed explicitly makes the claim that it is not a toxic environment. It sounds more like the wanted to reduce the turn-over of their hiring process by pre-screening candidates for behavior, rather than dealing with a systemic problem in their organization. It could be that the results of the re:work article were glossing over unaddressed toxic behavior (i.e. crude language) but it could also be that they were targeting different kinds of toxic behavior. Now, I wouldn't use the kind of language described by the OP, nor do I think I would feel especially comfortable working in an environment that did. However, I can conceive of other kinds of behavior (with regard to playing the game) that they might have been looking for, including: * being a "lone wolf" and generally not cooperating with teammates * persistently blaming others for one's own failings * taking undue credit for successes * rage quiting, or otherwise being a sore loser * trolling others rather than actually playing the game EDIT: fix formatting |