Anna Wiener

The author leaves her job in publishing to take a job doing customer support at a data collection startup in San Francisco, and in this book discusses the sexism, optimism, and something of the oppression of her time at that company and later. It's a good book, but I didn't really find a lot of new insight in it. She seems kind of naive, when discussing the "data driven" company, about the uses to which the data being gathered was put, and maybe a bit coy. An odd touch is that she never mentions the names of most companies ("the hated social network," etc.). Very readable, and makes one glad not to be involved in that world.… (more)

Repetitive, Meandering and Bloated

Started off well, then it became repetitive and meandering. Insider phrases, boring dialogue and stories that even to a tech nut like myself, I found disinteresting. I was expecting so much more from this book, but it turned out to be more of a disappointment. We all kind of knew that the Millenials were narcissistic, egomaniacal, money hungry, spoiled brats. This book just tells us that we were right all along. Instead of a 300 page book, this could easily been cut back to a short series of New Yorker articles..… (more)