Toxic and Woke Engineering Orgs

Marianne Bellotti
11 min readDec 15, 2020

Why are organizations committed to positive ideals so often shitty to their employees?

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I have a checklist of things I talk to new hires joining my team about during our first 1:1. Top of that list is the word boundaries double underlined. By the end of that first conversation I want to have covered the importance of three different categories of boundaries I consider absolutely essential to doing any kind of…

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Marianne Bellotti

Author of Kill It with Fire Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)