There's a 'github down' post here every other day.

The ball is right there, bouncing alone in front of the goal, and they just have to position themselves as "we're the stable ones" to score that market when the exodus inevitably happens.

Nope, full throttle and stimulants, just because.

Yep. These companies forget that we can use AI too, to unpack these ridiculous corporate statements in record time to get right down to the point: We're going to dump all our values, and not even going to pay lip service to things like integrity, transparency, or diversity anymore.

It’s there, at the end, -ish:

> Interpersonal excellence: individuals who are good humans, embrace diversity, inclusion and belonging, assume good intent and treat everyone with respect

I'm not even sure it even means "work harder, not smarder and wach yor seplling." In my experience it's more of a shibboleth to the new masters to let them know they're down with creating a top-down organization where information flows only one way.

Were I to have crafted this post, it would have included things like

"We ask our employees, customers and investors time to prove ourselves to you again as we re-commit to listening to our stake-holders and ensure our organization is properly re-positioned to execute our continued plans to deliver the best possible service..."

But instead it comes across as "someone read an article about Amazon's two-pizza team rule and we figured there were worse things to try."

Also stop talking to your colleagues and start talking to "ai".

Also no more Transparency.

"Speed with Quality"

Having been in some of these values meetings, I really imagine it went like this: someone wanted speed, and someone else wanted quality. Sorry, I mean Speed and Quality. Many people said there is a tradeoff between those two things, and only one thing can be first.

Some brilliant businessman: "I know, we'll combine them. We want Speed _and_ Quality." Thus, "Speed with Quality." Tada!

Values are a tradeoff: only one thing can be first. Trying to duck that is stupid.

Long live "SQOMCO"

I think you mean no more humans. Gross

> Ownership

I've noticed that the more a company pushes on ownership the more difficult it is to actually execute it.

> Ownership Mindset

Every company I've worked at hammers the "ownership" idea and I hate it so much. It's how they drive a culture where employees are expected to invest themselves into "owning" a problem space that can be taken from them at any moment. It's how they trick you into doing extra work that's not in your job description.

Unless you're ACTUALLY an owner, don't be fooled by an "ownership" value.

There seems to be a massive push against DEI over the last few years in the tech industry globally, despite it being one of the industry's greatest strength.

Does anyone know what caused this?

Well under this administration even if you believe in DEI best not have it written anywhere

So, SQUOMCO?

I thought that the GitHub degrading would be an opportunity for them to be an alternative more focused in stability and a customer centric approach . But it's just more slop

is there a company that has kept DEI?

Basically "screw any part about employees working together do what I say fast". What a shame. I love the AI bros who think utopia is coming, 4 day work weeks, etc. more like "get screwed, work more, for less, in worse environments".

Tranparency is also missing from the new values. Can't say I'm terribly surprised,but I am disappointed.

I don't understand why companies are abandoning DEI so quickly and so decisively. What happens if/when a Democrat president is elected that mandates DEI and ESG all over again, are they going to add them back into their core values as swiftly as they abandoned them?

At least companies like Coinbase made principled stances against forced DEI and employee activism earlier than everyone else. Doing it now seems weird because if it does become mandated again, they're going to look so phony.

SQOMCO?

I'm firmly not in Trump's anti-DEI camp but I have seen what can happen when you make it one of your core values. You can end up with a lot of people talking about it a lot, lots of meetings and initiatives rather than doing actual work. And usually those don't go anywhere because the people doing it don't have any power to actually change things. It's unlikely that a company like Gitlab really needs anything changing anyway.

It doesn't make sense for it to be 40% of their values, especially if they're losing money (or very close to it).

I thought GitLab was a bit more respectable than this LinkedIn style slop. I cringe less at horoscopes than this.

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