> leadership style being around a lot of smart engineers [...] building inclusive company culture in tech.
Red Hat was certainly an open company. I don't know if "inclusive" is the right word though. "Inclusive" has strong connotations now of people being welcoming, especially of those that are different.
This is largely anecdotal, but my interactions with Red Hat and external observations can better be summed up as "build a good-old-boys club of mostly white males who are regularly assholes" than "build an inclusive culture". I know those words are harsh, but the experiences I've had and have heard of are negative enough to warrant those words.
From my perspective, Red Hat seems to have created a culture of hiring smart engineers and then giving them leeway to be assholes under the guise of "open communication" and "meritocracy".
Honestly, memo list feels like a microcosm of this entire thing. It's a place where there originally were no guardrails under the guise of "free speech" and "openness", and it quickly devolved into a hostile place that made people feel anything but included.
Red Hat was certainly an open company. I don't know if "inclusive" is the right word though. "Inclusive" has strong connotations now of people being welcoming, especially of those that are different.
This is largely anecdotal, but my interactions with Red Hat and external observations can better be summed up as "build a good-old-boys club of mostly white males who are regularly assholes" than "build an inclusive culture". I know those words are harsh, but the experiences I've had and have heard of are negative enough to warrant those words.
From my perspective, Red Hat seems to have created a culture of hiring smart engineers and then giving them leeway to be assholes under the guise of "open communication" and "meritocracy".
Honestly, memo list feels like a microcosm of this entire thing. It's a place where there originally were no guardrails under the guise of "free speech" and "openness", and it quickly devolved into a hostile place that made people feel anything but included.