Over on LinkedIn, Dave Gerhardt wrote: Your company is not your friends. Your company is not your family. Ask anyone at Twilio. Or Shopify. Or Netflix. Or Twitter. Or Patreon. Or Hopin. Or any company that’s laid people off over the last year. Was it hard to lay those people off? Was it an emotional … Continue reading ““We’re all family here” is a big red flag”
How to translate job posts
What UX job posts say vs what they mean. (Company names withheld to protect the innocent, plus some of these would have about 100 company names behind them.) We have transparent communication. All our applicants want to work somewhere that management won’t lie to them so we’ve started saying we have this. We care about … Continue reading “How to translate job posts”
On Pirates And Management
[Editor’s note: mild spoilers ahead for Our Flag Means Death, a gay romantic comedy currently available on HBO Max.] Early in my career, I wanted to be management. Director. Vice President. Chief Design Officer. From where I sat, down in a cubicle pushing pixels, that’s where the power lay, where the real work happened. (Never … Continue reading “On Pirates And Management”