[datahead]

I'm curious if our interactions could be biased. For example, we're clients of RH (RHEL & Openshift) so I'm guessing we interact with more presentable humans. Everyone I've met has been genuinely wonderful and supportive across eng, sales, product, TAM, etc. One of the few vendors I enjoy working with.

I used inclusive in this context to mean that a junior engineer is expected to speak up and offer input in an executive meeting if they have something to offer. Cutting through hierarchy, "good ideas come from everywhere". This could be idealistic but it helped me in eliciting input.

I don't know what it's like to be on the inside or close periphery to daily core operations at RH. I agree and understand completely what you are saying. "Free speech" has (recently?) been a guise to act terribly toward each other in a number of settings. Trolls gonna troll. It's important to maintain decorum in the workplace and a culture that defies that can turn toxic quickly.

[TheDong]

My interactions have largely been meatspace and in open source communities they are heavily involved in (outside of k8s).

We do seem to have either interacted with difference slices of the company, or gotten different impressions.

Which is all well and good, an aggregate of anecdotes is better than just one.