Culture

The industry as a workplace and a social system, covered without the mythology. Hiring and layoffs, compensation, immigration and visas, return-to-office and remote work, the credential games around getting in, burnout, and the shifting status of the people who do the actual building. We also cover how the Valley talks about itself: the ideological arguments, the founder archetypes, the recurring claims about meritocracy and what the data says. This is not a gossip desk — the test for a story is whether it changes how someone reading it should think about their own career, their team, or the company they work for.