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I was originally going to reply with, when I was younger I had a similar concern, but you went off the rails with buzzword bingo with exaggerated issues as if t
by Shivetya 6y ago
I was originally going to reply with, when I was younger I had a similar concern, but you went off the rails with buzzword bingo with exaggerated issues as if they plague large corporations. Hell you can experience much of the same in any size corporation and even have them within your own business inadvertently.
However I found that working for a Fortune 500 company to be both rewarding and comforting. I have been doing it for over two decades. I see the winds of change all the time but I also see incredible people I would have never met otherwise, new technologies that only were present because being so large we had teams for everything, and the opportunities expanded when working with large vendors who did not just ignore us or take us for granted.
Are there issues working in a company which probably lost more in a backroom than they pay you. Sure. The key is knowing how to manage yourself and know the boundaries of your environment so that you don't because replaceable cog.
You think megacorps are bad, well have you considered the gargantuan that is your Federal or State level government. Here are countless agencies and officials who supposedly are there to look out for you and all the others but no one actually holds them to that. You can try but you are not going to get far. Hiding behind Sovereign Immunity and even Qualified Immunity; which applies to all officials not just police; when they do something wrong or even illegal. Play side games with grant money to fund each other or writing contracts to hire friends and family for big money. No, corporations when they get large can be a threat to you if you work for them but government is a threat to everyone but who do you run to first and point fingers at someone else for them to act upon?
- ddevault 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism This is Hacker News. This is an appeal to hackers, software engineers, tech workers - not government workers.