Sure, but how does it help? It covers basically all categories with negative attributes, plus in my experience there is so much variance within a given category (at least of the ones I've experienced) that talking of it as a whole is just not possible.
"There are no categories" - this isn't true. I've seen many of these patterns repeated over and over again. I've had replies right here on Twitter confirming some of them. I've seen multiple instances of many of the company types I've pointed out.
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The are companies formed by 1+ manipulators out there that will exploit developers. There are abusive publishers who help fund or start companies who work their employees to death. There are many firms that work with 2+ publishers who lie about what the devs do. It's what happens
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...and you have seen some posts agreeing with me and you would find more if you look. That’s what I am saying. YMMV and there are no general categories! But hey, if you want to take your anecdotes and codify them into laws, it’s your prerogative. And I would still “100% disagree”
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My biggest peeve
@richgel999 is that you really aren't doing anything to prevent someone from making the "mistake" of working at one of these companies in the first place. You tweet and blog a lot with winks and nods to who these companies are but rarely, if ever, name them. -
You're doing what you need to do to protect yourself, not make enemies, not make news etc, but what you're doing isn't really helping anyone IMO. You don't give these companies (or their employees!) a chance to defend the culture they have now vs what you think they had years ago
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You assume all of these companies still exist to defend themselves. Many abused their employees, lied to them, exploited them through lots of crunching, and then went under leaving their employees high and dry. In many cases the founders go and do it all over again.
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Most (all?) of the resistance to these basic concepts comes from highly privileged, highly paid corporate tech company employees. I suspect you are too far in the trees to see the forest here.
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Yeah I live with my head up in my (diamond encrusted) ass.
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I can agree about pattern, but usually they are overgeneralized for me: it is either too much politics or too much bureaucracy. Everything else varies highly even within company and depends on people in charge.
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Some of company types on my list are patterns designed and tweaked over the years by teams of pros who excel at exactly this. There are professional business people who know exactly what I'm talking about. Most developers are totally out of the loop here and won't get it at all.
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Well then, ok. I must be out of the loop. I will maybe see the wisdom once I reach a given exp level that I guess I have not yet quite achieved.
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