Lots of attrition of good engineers. Management is not held accountable for failures, only engineers are scapegoated. As a result, remaining engineers are disgruntled and don't care.
> Blind is an echo chamber, and attracts a certain type of person, for sure.
It certainly is a misery-loves-company community. But I have found them to be the most honest representation of a company and its tech and management practices. It is also a reliable source of compensation data.
For example, I look at Meta's reviews there and that matches my experience. Nobody cares about their apps. All people care about is performance reviews with fake impact. That was exactly my experience in the company.
I've found its accurate for Meta / Microsoft / Google / Apple / Netflix / Amazon. Having worked at Apple for half a decade, it seemed (mostly) accurate.
I have found it less accurate for other companies that are big and desirable but not nearly as sought after to work for in the last decade. For startups or smaller companies, its not the best data point
Don't know where I'd put GitHub, maybe the signal to noise ratio is closer to one of the big companies than not, however my current employer has a Blind channel and its not very accurate to my experience
Lol! If you're an engineer and you don't spend even a little time on Blind, you're signing up to get hustled. Learned so many interesting tidbits from Blind that I was able to use to get ahead in my career. Is it negative, yes; can you still benefit from it, yes.
Businesses that can turn profit from monkeys as employees are best businesses. Running such businesses on tightly standardized PhDs is best for its own survival. So that's what everyone does to various degrees, and it's also such a horrible thinking.
Source: https://www.teamblind.com/company/GitHub/reviews