Funny. I worked in that very office. I wasn't going to go that far, NDA and this name can be tied to me IRL, but you're not entirely right about it being hyperbole.

It wasn't all day to day horror, but I heard every rumor about every incident mentioned in the Vox article while I was still working there. The sex in the nursing room, the shit-smeared bathroom on the 4th floor while it was still being renovated, etc. Oh, I don't remember if that one was in the article or not.

I was up front about my reservations taking that job when the contract started because I'd worked in social media for years before. They said they would have help in place, but it was ineffective by the time I left. Leadership over promised and under delivered. I could have handled the content or the poor management, but the combination pushed me over. Ask someone from the first Phoenix batch, they'll back me up.

The second half of the article, where they talk to current employees, gave me some hope that things were turned around by the time the article was published. Don't mistake that for exaggeration or lies, though. I didn't talk to Vox, but I have a few hunches about who did, or who might have. Your experience might be different, but that doesn't make what made it into the article inaccurate.