On the one hand you hear about the flat management structure, but on the other you also hear that the culture is very in-group and clique-y (which, on the other other hand, is also what someone says when they just don’t know how to work politely with others).

That’s something I’ve oftened wondered about. I feel like interviews with former employees often reference toxic culture and things, but then when they cite specific examples it rarely sounds like harassment and more often sounds like just not meshing into the way a team works. I obviously want to give potential victims the benefit of the doubt, but I do also wonder what portion of them just couldn’t handle a high expectations low restrictions environment and find a team to slip into. Which isn’t a personal failing or anything of course, I know myself I may not thrive in that kind of environment, but it just makes me wonder how much of the “clique” culture is overblown.