Top-down hirings for the sake of culture change don't really work, though do they? It seems like the inevitable outcome is exactly this, a bright-eyed, and then soon-disenfranchised new hire, butting up against an resistant and entrenched culture.

Think this is only one side of the story though, what about people who had worked there just doing their job and you're being told there is something wrong with your culture and this person is being brought in to fix it.

It's a big company the whole thing can't just be a frat house there must at least be some percentage of decent people trying to do a job that are now being told there is something wrong with them.

(Not to mention the whole idea of a remote worker involved in any sort of culture change is utterly absurd)

I don't know the answer to that; it just seems odd to say she should have refrained from politicizing her work if that's exactly what they hired her for.