I completely agree with you. If they are willing to publicly trash a former employer and colleagues, what would stop them from trashing me as a new employer? I would be hesitant to hire someone who did this.
They are entitled to write whatever they want, but not taking into account the feelings of the people they were presumably working close with in posting something like this shows a startling lack of empathy.
I'm sure this developer is a genius, but I would take empathy over brilliance every time.
Edit: To be clear, if there is anything unethical or toxic about the workplace culture, they should absolutely post about it publicly to help fix it if that's the best route to address it. This post did not read that way to me. But that's just my opinion.
> I completely agree with you. If they are willing to publicly trash a former employer and colleagues, what would stop them from trashing me as a new employer?
I mean, presumably your confidence in being a good employer? People don't decide to trash talk their previous employers at random, right? Surely there is some cause-and-effect involved.
> what would stop them from trashing me as a new employer
Wouldn't it be a good incentive as an employer to not do things that would get you trashed by your employees ?
Sure some people could be revengeful for all the wrong reasons, but I don't think they're many, nor that they usually have a huge platform to throw trash, and these thing would also be denied on the spot by other people in the know.
What would stop them from trashing me as a new employer?
Not giving people loads and loads of things to feel bitter about. And an eggshell-strewn environment where it's basically impossible to air these concerns with anyone upstream.
They are entitled to write whatever they want, but not taking into account the feelings of the people they were presumably working close with in posting something like this shows a startling lack of empathy.
I'm sure this developer is a genius, but I would take empathy over brilliance every time.
Edit: To be clear, if there is anything unethical or toxic about the workplace culture, they should absolutely post about it publicly to help fix it if that's the best route to address it. This post did not read that way to me. But that's just my opinion.