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Nah, turn tail and leave when you could fight to change the company? Not gonna happen.

• shadowgovt 7y ago
  It depends. At a small company? Sure. But no individual employee, or even small collective of employees that aren't VP or key contributor in an irreplaceable knowledge-base, have the clout to turn a Microsoft or a Google. At a major company? The only thing you can do as an individual is take the wind out of their sales or refrain from working for them. Which these companies do notice; Google hiring keeps tabs on candidates who tell them "I won't work for you for ethical reason X."
  • thereare5lights 7y ago
    > It depends. At a small company? Sure. But no individual employee, or even small collective of employees that aren't VP or key contributor in an irreplaceable knowledge-base, have the clout to turn a Microsoft or a Google. I see this claim thrown around a lot with no evidence for it.
    • shadowgovt 7y ago
      I have no strong evidence other than "It's actually happening right now and the companies have only made minor deviations from their courses." That second half is purely subjective, and we won't really have a good idea on how much of a difference it made until historians can look back on this era with a quarter-century of hindsight.
      • thereare5lights 7y ago
        > I have no strong evidence other than "It's actually happening right now and the companies have only made minor deviations from their courses." I've yet to see anything actually happen in terms of exerting pressure aside from internal grumbling.
        • shadowgovt 7y ago
          Several employees have left and made public they left over Dragonfly and Maven projects at Google.
          • thereare5lights 7y ago
            Who?
            • shadowgovt 7y ago
              https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2018/05/14/google-project-maven-employee-protest/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2018/05/14...