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It was no different in the workplace culture. Senior colleagues bullied and screamed at young women, causing them to cry at their desks.

An unfortunate fact that catches many by surprise is that bullying is not against company policy in some of the FAANGs. In fact, some of them were founded by bullies and have a culture that glorifies such behavior.

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I find "scream" and "yell" to be incredibly subjective terms, and more often than not applied hyperbolically relative to my meaning of the words.

I've heard it applied to a totally normal conversational level of volume, but with a serious edge/tone to it.

> In fact, some of them were founded by bullies and have a culture that glorifies such behavior.

See video evidence of Bill Gates. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzftbBq42i8

> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzftbBq42i8

Interesting, do you know from what program/documentary this excerpt was taken from?

Doesn't FAANG, by definition, not include Microsoft?

I always thought it odd that Netflix made the cut into that acronym but Microsoft did not. But I think people colloquially add Microsoft to that mix even if it isn’t literally in the acronym.

My pet theory is that FAANG simply sounds cooler than any anagram of FAAGM. FAMAG maybe?

Or maybe it’s because MS is seen as uncool. A bit like IBM.

Fango is “mud” in Spanish. I guess that’s the same reason behind the BRIC acronym. Easy to remember and thus viral.

Netflix doesn't quite belong with the others but FAAG is a more problematic acronym and FAAMG isn't pronounceable.

I've also seen GANDALF (google amazon netflix dropbox amazon linkedin facebook), but dropbox probably doesn't belong in that list. There's plenty of backronyms, but one ends up just hitting critical mass.

In europe I have mostly heard of "GAFA" as an acronym for large tech companies.

I believe FAANG is a term coming from the financial world about high-performing tech stocks in the '10s, and thus included Netflix but dropped Microsoft as it was doing badly in that time period.

That's just rude.

How?

It is video that is on topic. Does Bill Gates' donating billions change something about how he was as a CEO to get those billions? What if it were Steve Jobs donating billions?

I don't know what I am missing here.

No bullying in this video.

Bullying is targeting an individual repeatedly and for petty reasons. Gates telling what I assume are senior managers to shove bad ideas is not bullying; that's how management is supposed to work.

Im confused, where is the bullying in that clip? All I see is the smartest person in the room getting frustrated.

I have a hard time understanding how this could possibly be seen as bullying. I have heard about his supposed tirades before but if this is the evidence for his tirades, then I am no longer in the camp of Bill was a Bully.

that's a people problem that exist pretty much in every company with a management layer

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