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I just think that it's lying about stuff that's creating an extremely toxic culture, silencing...The culture is pretty toxic. 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This is their first job out of school, and they really don't know how to build employees and retain good people, and they don't care if they piss people off with their actions. There were things that went on, and I'm not going to go into the details, but there are a number of things that went on in the company my last year or so.” – Former Ginkgo employee", "attrs": null, "subkind": "testimonial", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "8d31eaae-8fa6-41a3-9c5c-6b9166cc30f6", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.9, "x": 0.05, "y": 0.62 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "“The culture is very toxic…We used to call Zymergen Theranos because it was lying so much about the Hyaline film, and all the stuff that came out about Hyaline being not good for customers and stuff, we all knew that for a whole year, we just couldn't talk about it. 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It was not because people were working hard—because we all worked hard—it’s a mental anguish that was put on people…It was abusive, and part of it was that it was frustrating because this is Jason's first job.” – Former Ginkgo executive", "attrs": null, "subkind": "testimonial", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "cc54ee66-9e9b-4994-8223-e8580b885369", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "Absolutely, it was toxic. Absolutely. It was toxic. I had one individual who worked for me. She had to leave because she had horrible diet problems that developed because of working at Ginkgo. Physically, it was just killing people. 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