Hacker News with Generative AI: Corporate Culture

Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist (pastagang.cc)
Unrestrained, raw technological possibilities are scary. That it is why it is the duty of the corporation to package, sanitise, file down and finish with a coat of beige (or the current Pantone colour of the year, if we’re being extra fruity), lest “users” hold them in the wrong way.

Technology, Corporate Culture, User Experience

176 points by tobr 16 days ago | 103 comments

The Severance writer and cast on corporate cults, sci-fi, and more (arstechnica.com)
Cult documentaries, science fiction classics are named as the show's influences.

Television, Science Fiction, Corporate Culture

69 points by asplake 20 days ago | 54 comments

Ask HN: Experiences promoting corporate propaganda in your job? (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN, we always hear about discreet government propaganda divisions, but I want to know about the corporate ones, which are probably as if not more effective and widespread as they are a big part of our lives, especially given the world we are fast heading into. Thanks.

Marketing, Propaganda, Corporate Culture, Ethics

5 points by t0lo 26 days ago | 7 comments

Trust Issues: The closed corporate ecosystem is the problem (schneier.com)
For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to the early days of computing—and, often, on seed funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. But today’s tools are hardly the intentional product of the diverse generations of innovators that came before.

Artificial Intelligence, History, Technology, Security, Corporate Culture

15 points by rntn 56 days ago | 0 comments

Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich (nytimes.com)
When it comes to remote work, the C-suite wants workers to do as they say, not as they do.

Remote Work, Inequality, Work-Life Balance, Corporate Culture

5 points by mooreds 63 days ago | 0 comments

The online reaction to the killing of United Healthcare CEO should be a warning (ycombinator.com)
The fact that some person got angry enough to kill a high profile target isn't that extraordinary. It's happens, not frequently, but it happens with some regularity. It's the reaction that people are having, the glee at watching him die, that is extraordinary.

Social Media, Violence, Healthcare, Corporate Culture

11 points by moosedman 78 days ago | 0 comments

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment (nytimes.com)
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.

Google, Antitrust, Culture, Corporate Culture, Legal Practices

203 points by tysone 93 days ago | 222 comments

Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home (bloomberg.com)
Amazon.com Inc. is making it harder for disabled employees to get permission to work from home, underscoring the tech giant’s determination to get its corporate workforce back to the office five days a week.

Amazon, Disability, Remote Work, Corporate Culture

283 points by belter 100 days ago | 341 comments

Intel bringing back free office coffee to boost morale after a rough year (businessinsider.com)
Intel will once again offer free coffee and tea to its employees after slashing the perks as part of its cost-cutting efforts.

Intel, Employee Morale, Corporate Culture, Business, Perks

6 points by RyeCombinator 106 days ago | 5 comments

Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
Meta has fired about two dozen staff in Los Angeles for using their $25 meal credits to buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses, and laundry detergent.

Meta, Business, Employee Misconduct, Corporate Culture

18 points by botanical 127 days ago | 32 comments

Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
Meta has fired about two dozen staff in Los Angeles for using their $25 meal credits to buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses, and laundry detergent.

Meta, Business, Corporate Culture, Technology, Ethics

8 points by dtparr 127 days ago | 1 comments

Dell's sudden 5-day RTO order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare (businessinsider.com)
Dell told all sales staff to return to the office five days a week, giving two days' notice.The policy panicked parents and has led to crowded offices, Dell workers told Business Insider.

Remote Work, Work-Life Balance, Corporate Culture, Parenting

60 points by achristmascarl 135 days ago | 91 comments

Amazon RTO Edict Reflects Fear New Hires Don't Know Company Culture (bloomberg.com)
Amazon.com Inc.’s controversial decision to bring corporate employees back to the office full-time reflects executives’ concerns that recent recruits don’t understand the company’s unique culture.

Amazon, Corporate Culture, Remote Work, Workforce Management

5 points by ipsocannibal 136 days ago | 2 comments

What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment (theatlantic.com)
A multibillion-dollar success story quickly turned into a curse.

Video Games, Business, Corporate Culture

8 points by lordleft 137 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Kodak, VW, Intel – Why big companies fail? (ycombinator.com)
Understandable for startups - product isn't something anybody needs or not enough cash but why big companies with a proven product would fail?

Business, Failure, Startups, Innovation, Corporate Culture

17 points by wg0 154 days ago | 38 comments

Amazon employees blast new RTO policy in internal messages (businessinsider.com)
Amazon employees criticized a new five-day RTO mandate in internal Slack messages.

Amazon, Remote Work, Corporate Culture

5 points by thunderbong 157 days ago | 0 comments

Secrets of Corporate HR Department (reddit.com)
A friend of mine, who works as an HR manager at a MASSIVE corporation you likely know (you probably own their products), shared something deeply unsettling with me. She revealed how her company manipulates job listings to test how desperate people are for work. They’re testing how low they can go on salary and benefits before people stop applying.

Human Resources, Job Hunting, Corporate Culture, Employment

27 points by rainhacker 165 days ago | 2 comments

Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf] (akamaihd.net)

Valve, Employee Handbook, Gaming, Corporate Culture

108 points by thecalebf 182 days ago | 112 comments

Silicon Valley's Unspoken Rulebook: Ex-Google CEO's Slip Reveals Power Dynamics (ycombinator.com)

Silicon Valley, Power Dynamics, Leadership, Corporate Culture, Google

10 points by alexfefun 186 days ago | 4 comments

Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon (fortune.com)

Amazon, Management, Business, Leadership, Corporate Culture

218 points by ecliptik 205 days ago | 322 comments

Dell employees used company's corporate survey to tell bosses post-RTO feelings (businessinsider.com)