This hits home for me pretty hard. Honestly reading it felt kinda therapeutic as I still occasionally have bad dreams from a previous company (ideas being shot down, trying to fit into an existing team, etc..).

especially this comment -

> Existing teams have established relationships, and are easy to offend collectively

https://medium.com/@prajjwalsin/this-sort-of-thing-can-even-...

Fwiw, there are companies/teams who act quite the opposite of this article (encourage ideas..). I've been part of many of them and it's something I try to look for now.