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by sethammons 2326 days ago
The anonymous questions for all hands is a problem at our company. We used to have it and some people abused it. Instead of asking hard questions, one or more people used it to attack. "Why is so-and-so even here? They are utterly incapable and a fucking idiot." Or "how can leadership be so stupid?". A couple of bad apple comments came up each all hands so leadership changed it to not be anonymous. We lost out on other great questions, I'm sure, and also lost the toxic ones. People do ask hard questions tied to their names, but I'm sure we are losing other needed questions due to the policy.