I completely agree with you. If they are willing to publicly trash a former employer and colleagues, what would stop them from trashing me as a new employer? I would be hesitant to hire someone who did this.
They are entitled to write whatever they want, but not taking into account the feelings of the people they were presumably working close with in posting something like this shows a startling lack of empathy.
I'm sure this developer is a genius, but I would take empathy over brilliance every time.
Edit: To be clear, if there is anything unethical or toxic about the workplace culture, they should absolutely post about it publicly to help fix it if that's the best route to address it. This post did not read that way to me. But that's just my opinion.
I still have my account but disabled all notifications and effectively stopped visiting it except for rare occasions. I did this about 4 months after the election, when I realized how toxic Facebook had become, watching my friends and family deride each other for their voting choices. It wasn't healthy. I am actually glad that I stopped visiting it because in retrospect I don't miss it at all, and can't even estimate how much productive time I probably wasted on it.
They are entitled to write whatever they want, but not taking into account the feelings of the people they were presumably working close with in posting something like this shows a startling lack of empathy.
I'm sure this developer is a genius, but I would take empathy over brilliance every time.
Edit: To be clear, if there is anything unethical or toxic about the workplace culture, they should absolutely post about it publicly to help fix it if that's the best route to address it. This post did not read that way to me. But that's just my opinion.