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Yea this something I realized recently with the VP guy leaving. As a upper-middle elitist working engineering/ML/management how do you reconcile the cognitive d
by euix 6y ago
Yea this something I realized recently with the VP guy leaving. As a upper-middle elitist working engineering/ML/management how do you reconcile the cognitive dissonance? I have been considering a career changing and one of the things is studying for interviews at the FAANGS and I have trouble working for the "man" as it is and this whole affair is just turning me off more.
- ForHackernews 6y agoThis isn't that hard: Just don't work for the evil ones! If their recruiters contact you, tell them why. There are plenty of non-evil companies that will pay you well to do interesting work. Even in your "FAANG" list, Netflix just makes entertaining videos. Apple makes pleasantly overpriced hardware and competes on privacy in software. Apply to them, instead of ad-tech and sweatshops-as-a-service.
- wgerard 6y agoJust to play devil's advocate a little: You should look up some of the ethical issues around cobalt mining [1], which Apple is at least indirectly complicit in. Netflix famously made their culture documents transparent to much derision about their workplace being an unhealthy competitive environment. Relatedly, they're also arguably the most famous progenitor of the "unlimited-vacation-but-don't-actually-take-it-or-else" workplace cliche. 1: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/a...
- ForHackernews 6y agoMaybe we should revise this to "try to work for companies that are only indirectly (rather than directly) evil"