Hacker News with Generative AI: Corporate Culture

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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment (theatlantic.com)
A multibillion-dollar success story quickly turned into a curse.
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?
Amazon employees blast new RTO policy in internal messages (businessinsider.com)
Amazon employees criticized a new five-day RTO mandate in internal Slack messages.
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.
Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf] (akamaihd.net)
Silicon Valley's Unspoken Rulebook: Ex-Google CEO's Slip Reveals Power Dynamics (ycombinator.com)
Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon (fortune.com)
Dell employees used company's corporate survey to tell bosses post-RTO feelings (businessinsider.com)
Corporate HR is taking "Equity" out of DEI (axios.com)
Pips are disingenuous. If you get put on one, find a new job as fast as possible (businessinsider.com)
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020) (danluu.com)
Corporate America Is Going Un-Woke (businessinsider.com)
Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead (jeffgeerling.com)
Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’ (fortune.com)
Apple: No notes taken at executive meetings (afr.com)
Another Boeing whistleblower says he faced retaliation for reporting 'shortcuts' (npr.org)