[logicalmonster]

For me, it's 2 big reasons.

1) Dealing with climbing the corporate ladder, covering your ass from backstabbers, and all sorts of company politics are bad enough to deal with in fairly small companies where you might have a handful of business relationships to deal with, let alone in mega-corporations where you might be working in one small project department with dozens and dozens of people and several layers of managers.

2) Big companies have essentially become centers for identity politics, not sitting down and writing code and solving creative problems. Somehow good things like being kind to all and treating everybody as you'd want to be treated have morphed into (mostly people who have infiltrated HR departments) preaching anti-whiteness and anti-male hatred. I do some consulting for companies and have been put on a handful of their internal mailing lists so I directly see what kind of racist filth goes out to the actual employees.

[worker767424]

> Big companies have essentially become centers for identity politics

Whenever I see something about "blacklist" or "master vs main," I wish I could ask the people behind it "don't you have something better to be working on?" It got to the point that "blacklist" is a trigger for me, not because I find the term offensive, but because I don't want to deal with the flamewar that's soon to follow. I go out of my way to not name things "blacklist" or "blocklist" just to avoid this.

[dataangel]

> preaching anti-whiteness and anti-male hatred. I do some consulting for companies and have been put on a handful of their internal mailing lists so I directly see what kind of racist filth goes out to the actual employees.

As somebody very skeptical of this characterization but that admittedly does not work in FAANG I would love to see a copy and pasted example.

[logicalmonster]

I prefer not to break NDA's or risk doxxing at this time, but here are 2 fairly recent examples that have leaked in the mass media from large corporations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/coca-cola-accused-of-re...

https://nypost.com/2021/10/29/att-offers-staff-critical-race...

[dehrmann]

I don't doubt that racism like this sneaks into D&I presentations, but I have to call out that the sources are the Daily Mail and NY Post--both are known for bias and not being especially reliable sources. At the same time, I don't think more authoritative, centrist news outlets would cover this story, either.

[UncleMeat]

Famous FAANG companies: Coca-Cola and AT&T.

[logicalmonster]

You've either missed the principle discussed here or are being willfully disingenuous.

[UncleMeat]

I personally think the principle is ridiculous, especially when focused specifically at these companies. I'm a white male who works at one of them and find "anti-white anti-male hatred" to be a frankly laughable depiction. The fact that the cited cases are in unrelated businesses is just icing on the cake.

[rockemsockem]

Are you really trying to say that these two companies are working the same way as FAANG?

[olliej]

The mere fact that you’re calling it anti-whiteness and anti-maleness indicates that you’re not a person I would want to work with.

You need to provide examples to back up your claims. Examples that aren’t simply “company is trying to recover from its historically racist and sexist recruitment policies”

[DiggyJohnson]

This is exactly the sort of comment that makes me not want to work with you. Who are you to assume the role of the individual in a battle against companies with “historically racist and sexist recruitment policies”? From my perspective, the burden is on you to demonstrate that this isn’t a emotionally charged reaction to the current political zeitgeist?

[no-dr-onboard]

Perhaps the mistake here is thinking that you have the privilege to demand something of someone online.