Hacker News with Generative AI: Corporate Culture

At Chrysler I Kept a Glossary of Ridiculous Corporate Terms Engineers Overused (theautopian.com)
When I became a full-time engineer at Chrysler at age 21, there were certain elements of the corporate environment that I found flat-out odd.

Automotive, Engineering, Corporate Culture, Language

14 points by rmason 2 days ago | 7 comments

The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock (wrk3.substack.com)
After ‘Peak Office’ why Return-to-Office mandates are more about strutting than strategy

Corporate Culture, Workplace Trends, Remote Work

26 points by jenny6060 6 days ago | 56 comments

Anonymous Corpo Confessions (baserow.io)

Anonymous Confessions, Corporate Culture, Business, Software

12 points by Auscos 8 days ago | 10 comments

When Corporate Branding Goes Wrong (nytimes.com)
A British investment firm restored most of the vowels to its name after a widely ridiculed revamp that showed the pitfalls of trying to look cool in the digital age.

Branding, Corporate Culture, Marketing, Digital Age, Business

28 points by samclemens 25 days ago | 14 comments

Performance Measures and Incentives, Lessons from a Famous Corporate Implosion (coyoteblog.com)
To understand why organizations grow senescent, get fat, and fail – whether they be public or private – there is probably no topic more important than performance measures and incentives.

Business, Incentives, Corporate Culture, Failure, Organizational Growth

10 points by speckx 26 days ago | 0 comments

Boeing's Bean-Counters Courted the 737 MAX Disaster (2019) (thedailybeast.com)
Just when the smallest jet should have been replaced with a new model, the company fell into tight-fisted hands—with fatal consequences.

Boeing, Aviation, Accidents, Corporate Culture, Investigations

23 points by herecomethefuzz 32 days ago | 1 comments

Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office (nytimes.com)

Google, Corporate Culture, Work-Life Balance, Technology

59 points by tgma 34 days ago | 29 comments

Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate (corporate.watch)
We are 7 weeks into Q1, 2025 (week 7 of 13)

Humor, Time Management, Corporate Culture

392 points by steadycourse 37 days ago | 171 comments

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 56 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 61 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 66 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 96 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 103 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 118 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 134 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 140 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 146 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 167 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 167 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 175 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 177 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 177 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 194 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 198 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 205 days ago | 2 comments

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

Valve, Employee Handbook, Gaming, Corporate Culture

108 points by thecalebf 222 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 226 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 245 days ago | 322 comments

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