This is a pretty narrow view of the available jobs for software engineers. I have personally never worked for any of the industries/criteria you listed. I just

This is a pretty narrow view of the available jobs for software engineers. I have personally never worked for any of the industries/criteria you listed. I just pulled up the latest "who's hiring": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042618 Of the first 12 posts, one is the FBI, one is questionable (using proxies to circumvent rate limits, anti-scraping tech, etc), and the other 10 seem anywhere from boring to laudable. Most tech jobs do not require you to make broad ethical compromises to work there.