If they take 29 days to respond to this, I wonder how long they might take to respond to the fairly shocking allegations within the recent Business Insider article [0]?
In fact I wonder if this response was ever going to happen on its own? Perhaps the cause of the response was their recent string of bad press - dear github, business insider, eslint, etc.
It strikes me as strange that a company that has so many people focused on community and social impact doesn't have time to talk to its users.
I hope they manage to sort themselves out as it's getting embarrassing.
But it was unsettling to hear an anonymous source say they were avoiding interviews on racial grounds. That sounds illegal if it's true - and even if it's not true, surely it's something you should be open about? People care about fairness.
In fact I wonder if this response was ever going to happen on its own? Perhaps the cause of the response was their recent string of bad press - dear github, business insider, eslint, etc.
It strikes me as strange that a company that has so many people focused on community and social impact doesn't have time to talk to its users.
I hope they manage to sort themselves out as it's getting embarrassing.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067