[noobhacker]

This is an accurate summary of the article.

However, in my personal experience, it is not an accurate summary of the Bay Area. The startup scene may be truly this toxic, but I think such toxicity plagues any small, homogeneous group of people. It is hardly a tech problem. Indeed, mom-and-pop shop in small towns can be very abusive too.

To offer a counter anecdote, my experience with FAANG has been very positive. My workplace is the most meritocratic, efficient, and transparent organization that I've been in. (And I did spend 6 years on the East coast doing things unrelated to tech.)

I'm certain that the author's experience is true. I also want to caution against generalizing these issues to all of tech in the Bay.

[undefined3840]

A Facebook engineer just committed suicide last week due (allegedly) to workplace bullying made possible in part by his immigration status. Something like 45 women from Google just came forward claiming they were retaliated against for bringing up sexual harassment claims to HR this week.

You can’t generalize the claim that things are different at FAANGs either.

[barry-cotter]

Don’t Facebook and Google each have over 100K employees just in their Bay Area offices? This is like FoxConn[1]. You can be doing substantially better than average and still have constant bad news by virtue of your size alone.

[1] The suicide rate among their employees was below the general population’s.

[hobofan]

> The suicide rate among their employees was below the general population’s.

Was their suicide rate lower or higher then that of employees with a similar socioeconomic status?

[undefined3840]

No...Google has 100k employees worldwide. Facebook is something like 30k worldwide.

[shuckles]

I'm not sure how your logic works: "most meritocratic, efficient, and transparent" does not mean flawless.