With articles like this, I often to take out the horrible thing that the company is doing and post the quote to Hacker News, to give a sense of the scale of the issue; in this case me trying to do so would require including the majority of the article. It’s that bad. And yes, apparently the company thought it was ok for the COO to physically assault security researchers at a conference.
> Angry drunk vs. happy drunk is a good zeroth-order personality test.
And to be fair even "happy drunk" can be unprofessional in the wrong context.
But I think anyone who judges someone for how they act in a bar, after dark, and the concern is they were too jovial (absent some kind of sexual harassment or belting out racist jokes) is not someone I'd want to work with anyways.
