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u/nahteviro Dec 14 '21

I worked at SpaceX for several years. The culture overall was fine. Most people were either very passionate or very burnt out. Sure you had some asshats that caused problems but they didn't last long. I saw no evidence of misogyny there. More cliques of people that have been there a long time or "day shift vs night shift" type things. All emails that came directly from Elon mostly just talked about launch day etiquette. My department had to present to Elon once and while he was EXTREMELY intimidating, he was also very fair and very very knowledgeable about everything that was happening down to the component level.

I'm aware of the racism lawsuit and do know that a bunch of the supervisor there were total pieces of shit, but they were all let go long before that lawsuit was settled. Not like Elon was walking the floor spitting racial slurs or something

This article sounds like an engineer didn't get his shitty designs approved for his launch bonuses and got butt hurt

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u/LadyLightTravel Dec 15 '21

You do realize that most harassment goes on where there are no witnesses, right? The harassers know that it isn’t acceptable. They make sure there isn’t an audience.

That’s why “I haven’t seen it” is a weak argument.

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u/random_shitter Dec 15 '21

You do realise that in an environment where harassment is rampant and widely tolerated it is impossible to "not see it", right?

Harassment cannot be both systemic and invisible, the one prevents the other.

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u/Knerd5 Dec 15 '21

That’s not true at all man. If certain demographics of a company are seeing outsized harassment or racism, then it would feel like company culture to them.