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I was supposed to interview at Facebook this week. My company is struggling and I expect I’ll be laid off before the year is over, so I figured that maybe I cou

I was supposed to interview at Facebook this week. My company is struggling and I expect I’ll be laid off before the year is over, so I figured that maybe I could push my ethical frustrations with the company aside and just go make some good money and ignore the fact that this company is undermining democracy and many of the things I value. Seeing resignations from existing Facebook employees really woke me up and made me realize that I can’t sacrifice my values for a paycheck and stable employment. I contacted the recruiter at the beginning of the week and told them I was going to stop the process and my reasons. I hope that engineers taking a stand like the OP know that it is having an impact. It’s tempting to be cynical, no job in tech right now is without faults, so why not just play the capitalist game? Everyone makes their own choices, but struggling to make the right choice for you is better than refusing to struggle.

euix 6y ago
In a similar boat here. I am not in danger of losing my job but I kinda thought I spend some time at Facebook see what "state of the art" looks like for a big tech company and then do something else a few years down the line. I passed their coding screen and I am waiting to schedule a full day interview but as far as the big tech companies go Facebook does get a bad rap. Although I think its unavoidable. I used work in NYC making not as much as a FANG worker but enough money to know, it's impossible to make that kind of cash without moral compromises. It's simply a feature of the capitalist system, companies like FB are just taking it to its logical extremes, the commodification of your society down to the individual level.