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> So standard question when terrible stories like this are posted: there are many HN members who work at FB. How do you deal with stories like this and continui
by allthecybers 6y ago
> So standard question when terrible stories like this are posted: there are many HN members who work at FB. How do you deal with stories like this and continuing to work there?
I’ve been interested in hearing a cogent response to this question as well. Obviously FB is held in regard as a tech company to work for and member of FAANG, but I believe their core platform facilitates more harm to society and democracy than good.
I’d love to hear from some HN members who work there and understand their reasoning better. I’m open to entertaining a different perspective.
- samtho 6y agoNot a Facebook employee but I did interview there. There are a few reasons why I would, personally, not want to leave had I accepted that offer. First are the people you get to work with. As I’ve progressed through my career, coworker tolerability is a huge must for me and they’ve managed to hire a lot of really good people. Second, which I can speak to from experience, a large tech company that can pay 150% your target salary at any other company with fantastic benefits, retirement, medical, etc is hard to leave (Golden handcuffs). Not everyone has the luxury to just up and quit a job just because the company appears to do unsavory things. As an aside, being in a large company, it’s hard to identify with a division different than your own. From the outside, you may see members of Facebook as equally complicit, but while inside you can always resolve cognitive dissonance by saying, “well that’s not _my_ team doing evil things, we’re trying to do good here.”