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Any company in a nutshell. I've worked retail, warehousing, IT, and engineering, and every company I've worked for has had a big problem with owners hiring charismatic psychopaths who end up causing some degree of harm to the employees around them. I worked with a guy who was very favored by the bosses at one company, and he instructed employees to break company policy and then went to me in IT and told me to install a camera in the areas he told the employees to break policy in. When I inadvertently learned the truth, I ignored his request. But... yeah. It's not unique to google or tech companies.



Reversal to the mean.

Works across many levels, not just higher up management.


Maybe I lucked out, but I found perhaps one or two psychopaths in two decades working tech, before big tech, and both were VP-level and non technical. But yes, I guess corporate ladders tend to reward psychopaths and narcissists by design




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