What? Not having your company's stock perform as well as you wish (or what the recruiter told you, which everyone takes with a grain of salt anyways) is nowhere near examples see in that court filing. Not remotely close. Putting what looks to be serious abuse in the workplace alongside stock underperformance as "issues" is absurdly disingenuous.
I know plenty of folks who work at a wide variety of companies in the Bay Area and have heard of nothing remotely as crazy as what is being reported at Color, so yes, I do believe this sort of thing is relatively isolated.
I mean, if "this type of thing"=someone bringing a gun to work and your children getting threatened, I obviously agree. My point was more that there is a pretty discernable pattern of people acting like terrible human beings when they run a startup and see dollar signs in the future.
ps. I think the whole "which you can take with a grain of salt" statement says it all. These companies employ these people and ask them to sell the company by saying thing x, y or z. If those things they made up to get you to leave a job are complete bullshit, its not just like "oh well, silly me trusting a recruiter" it should be "wow those guys at Facebook are kind of scumbags for misleading me and promising me x while giving me y while our CEO is now one of the richest people on earth." Cool.
I know plenty of folks who work at a wide variety of companies in the Bay Area and have heard of nothing remotely as crazy as what is being reported at Color, so yes, I do believe this sort of thing is relatively isolated.