You can beat the system and be disobedient while still behaving ethically. In fact that's the very best time to beat the system and be disobedient.
Not blaming you, just highlighting the flaw in your argument. Because, the lack of mention of that word IS a culture issue.
or, how you interpret the question is part of the interview process...
The main higher-level factor is our patriarchal culture (and more bad things tend to stem from places where that’s intense).
Let’s organize the temporal order a bit. This is what some research turned up.
“Groups of senior employees, concerned with Altman’s leadership and lack of transparency, asked Loopt’s board on two occasions to fire him as C.E.O., according to Hagey.”
“As Mark Jacobstein, an older Loopt employee who was asked by investors to act as Altman’s “babysitter,” later told Keach Hagey, for “The Optimist,” a biography of Altman, “There’s a blurring between ‘I think I can maybe accomplish this thing’ and ‘I have already accomplished this thing’ that in its most toxic form leads to Theranos,” Elizabeth Holmes’s fraudulent startup.”
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/veLhW
I read he’s a vegetarian out of concern for animals, and that’s a good moral sign (but perhaps less relevant here).
Are / were there precursor concerns arising to signal back then? I don’t know.
"Despite potential warning signs, we believe Sam to be an ethical person"
and not
"We know that Sam is an unethical person, but that's either not a problem, or an actual asset when it comes to running our venture fund"
The former is definitely still an error, but it's quite different from the accusation being leveled on this thread.
That’s covered by my options: “doesn’t do a good job of filtering”.
> due to, you know... their lack of ethics.
Being unethical and being able to hide it are entirely orthogonal.
While there's no shortage of horror stories and I think greater scrutiny/criticism is warranted, I doubt that it's an actual criminal organization.
pretty sure PG and sama had a pretty serious falling out because it turns out sama is a complete snake
but you know, go off king (or whatever)
Though full disclosure: I did that, so that might colour my view. https://vincenttunru.com/hacking-a-gameshow/
The way to tell between that and factual / culturally-fluent: were you able to any strengths of other cultures? Weaknesses of your own?
Or did you go off on an (in this case ill-informed) rant about "they bad"?
The way to cure it is a mixture of reading: business books on culture (like Meyer and Hofstede) and NATO ones. Those are places people need to work together, as opposed to woke ideology.
Then, application. Travel is good here.