I’m wary of these kinds of stories, where someone PR-savvy with a grudge lobs nebulous complaints against a company. Can anyone at BO without a grudge substantiate this “toxicness”?
> After publication of the essay, Ars spoke with several current and former employees who have provided reliable information in the past about the company. Although it is clear the essay was a product of disgruntled workers, these sources agreed that there were elements of truth in the essay. For these sources, the withering criticism of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, and his hand-picked chief executive, Bob Smith, rang especially true.
Well Amazon is too. It's what happens when you push bullshit "leadership principles" and turn them into the criterion for peer performance reviews. I keep getting LinkedIn requests to come back to Amazon but I'd never join that company again on principle. Bezos is hollow. Take open-source, rebrand it, and kill the original projects. Give employees door desks and tea bags, and tell them to piss in bottles. A CEO knows what's happening. He didn't just overlook the culture he created.
Please don't let this cancerous company destroy Rust:
40 suborbital flights a year is like 400 times what the market for suborbital flights is.
(Funny nobody has tried to make a little reusable sounding rocket. You'd almost think a university research group could do it, but I guess that the hassle of handling liquid fuels effaces any gain you'd get from it.)
