Comment by shriver

Well let's be clear - Barry is a product manager. It's not really his area of expertise to change an entire culture, and arguably it shouldn't have been his problem. So it's hard to criticize him for his attempts to improve their culture. At the end of the day though - once he found out the culture was taking its lead from the founder & CEO you kind of know you just have to get out of there. There's nothing a product manager is going to be able to do to improve the culture whilst there are senior people in the organisation propagating it.