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I'm always so disappointed to read comments like this on HN. People who won't work for Facebook because they think it's actually an evil, unethical corporate ma
by dymk 8y ago
I'm always so disappointed to read comments like this on HN. People who won't work for Facebook because they think it's actually an evil, unethical corporate machine. There's lots of reasons not to work there, but "they're unethical" does not ring true for me.
I used to work there, and I only very, very rarely saw behavior that I truly disagreed with. Leadership's decisions will look weird when viewed through a New York Times lens, but are sensible when you have the whole picture and can ask leadership questions directly.
You're giving up the opportunity to work with some of the best minds in the industry, working on actually novel engineering problems that only come up when you're at the sale of billions of users and trillions of datapoints. They're a great place to grow your career when you're just starting out, because you get a peek at how a global scale company is structured, and how the tech was built. There's no shortage of senior engineers who are incentivized to mentor those just starting out. There's literally hundreds of teams to choose from, and switching teams is easy.
- bicubic 8y agoUnethical doesn’t ring true for you even as fb faces a multi billion dollar lawsuit over targeted manipulation of individuals in concert with Cambridge Analytica?
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- dominotw 8y ago1. do you agree with iraq war? 2. if no, why didn't you move to canada?
- elicash 8y agoI don't have a dog in this fight, but what a bizarre comment. You think to be consistent OP would have to abandon their family and friends and go to another country? That's the same thing as having ethical concerns regarding which job to take?
- dominotw 8y agohow is it different? moving away from family and friends is worse than being complicit in massacre of millions of ppl ? > That's the same thing as having ethical concerns regarding which job to take? yeah same logic. Working at FB is automatically being complicit in their unethical behavior even if you aren't directly working on any such thing.
- bastawhiz 8y ago> Leadership's decisions will look weird when viewed through a New York Times lens, but are sensible when you have the whole picture and can ask leadership questions directly. I'd love to hear FB leadership's justification for trying to milk money out of kids playing games with their parent's credit cards.