6:43 PM
@MonicaCellio Ok, but these look to me micromanagement things from a CEO level. Why was it so important for them to fire you without any communicatable reason? You applied for a job by them, and you were rejected, but you were not far away from the successful application. Thus, you were near of becoming an employee. And a CEO switch meant from the company, that the jobs of all employee are in danger.
@MonicaCellio On this reason, I suspect, your firing was not initiated from the CEO level. I suspect, it was initiated from a lower level, from a person who considered you as a danger to his/her job. An he/she wanted to eliminate his/her possible follower, to decrease the chance of his/her firing. Here comes our most "loved" *Director in the picture. Doesn't she sit now in the position, were also you applied last year?
@MonicaCellio Many years ago, the list of the internal and external employee of the company was available on the StackExchange.com. As far I know, it is not so today, but what was very obvious, that only very few of them has a work in direct contact with the site network. People working on such places knows this very well, and typically they start internal wrangles. Furthermore, I don't really believe that the SE would pay more for a job only because it is a famous company.
@MonicaCellio On these reasons, I don't believe that it would be so nice to work by them.
The new CEO will probably significantly decrease the wage costs, and he will want increasing stats on any cost. Your "firing" from a volunteer position was probably only the begin. Many personal changes will likely follow, mostly in the circles of the internal employee, in the NY office. These changes will extrapolate to changes in the external employee.
Some of the concurrents (maybe quora?) had some similar problems already, as far I know, there the reaction of the management was that now all of their mods are employee. This change happened because there was a similar conflict with a volunteer mod. Some similar is imho possible also on the SE.