A message from a grateful engineer convinced me to scrap a damning exposé on Bunq, and led me to adopt a policy of writing about what works at companies instead of only what's broken.

After an engineer credited Bunq with giving them a career break despite tough working conditions, Orosz killed a critical article and shifted his editorial approach going forward. ✦ AI generated

Gergely Orosz · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-07-08 · original ↗

Based on that interaction, I opted not to publish the article, and it also led me to adopt a new editorial policy that I have followed since: I write about what works inside companies, instead of focusing on what seems to be broken.

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