To paraphrase Mark Suster from his Both Sides of the Table blog, are you ready to learn or earn? If you're early in your career, and you are benefiting from wo

To paraphrase Mark Suster from his Both Sides of the Table blog, are you ready to learn or earn? If you're early in your career, and you are benefiting from working on hard engineering problems with a competent team, then I would advise you to try to enjoy the ride and then switch jobs once you think you've learned all you can from your team. As others have already explained, businesses are very frequently amoral and short-term-profit-driven. I went through my jaded-at-the-world phase, and by now I've mostly made my peace with that aspect of capitalism. I've learned that the world is often more complex than I had imagined. Sometimes, companies have to claw their way to survival through questionable means, but may still have a net positive effect on the world after enough time. And sometimes not... If this isn't your first, or even third rodeo, and you're ready to earn instead of learn (c.f. Mark Suster) then life is too short to be unhappy with where you work. Use your skills to build something your care about in a company you respect. My $0.02