[nomadrat]

Love the product, but this deck... jeez. It's like all this companies that claim that you're in the family and then this family ask you to leave. I've seen too much places with "culture" when in reality it's a toxic as hell.

[commandlinefan]

Reminds me of this reddit post about stack overflow: https://i.redd.it/per2eihv0jn31.png.

"Hi, welcome to Stack Overflow! Please take time to read the rules before posting so that you don't make such a big fool of yourself next time. We're a friendly bunch here so it's ok that you're an inferior human being and clearly don't know what you're doing, but just be sure not to post here again and that would be great. Thanks!"

[kanox]

It's not a family, it's a workplace.

If the company pretends otherwise it's better not to work there.

[dshah]

I agree with you on that front.

In earlier versions of the deck, we actually explicitly called out that we are NOT a family. We are a team with a common goal. You don't get to choose your family, but you do get to choose your team.

h/t to Netflix for that original "team not a family".

[hitekker]

Why did you remove that call-out?

[dshah]

Candidly, this year, because of the pandemic, we've come closer together as a group. Not quite a family -- but closer. Also, I needed to make room in the deck to articulate our position on diversity and inclusion.

[layoutIfNeeded]

>articulate our position on diversity and inclusion

I wonder what that position could be! Must be some revolutionarily fresh take on diversity™ and inclusion™ that no other tech company had espoused before.

This is satire, right?

[justforyou]

I know of at least one customer that you're going to loose as a result of this tone deaf PR, and based on your responses in this thread am hoping that you loose a lot more.

[freewilly1040]

> we've come closer together as a group

Why are you confident that this feeling is shared by your employees?

[baxtr]

Well, I don't know. Families can be quite toxic, too.