Out of curiosity, have you worked at a megacorp? A lot of the things you say in the article don't really ring true for me. Maybe it's team-dependent, but I actu

Out of curiosity, have you worked at a megacorp? A lot of the things you say in the article don't really ring true for me. Maybe it's team-dependent, but I actually have much better visibility here for how my actions impact "the bottom line", and I'm fairly confident that nothing I'm working on is being used to support genocide or slavery. I've worked at small smaller companies and actually had the opposite experience. Way more NDAs, way more issues with HR (at a megacorp, it's true that HR might not give a shit on a personal level about outcomes when there's issues. I'll take that over the situation where HR is a blood relative or close personal friend of someone involved in an issue). This sort of vague apathy is awesome--I can make code contributions to a team I've never met and they're happy to accept them. At smaller companies I've worked at, crossteam collaboration was a lot more difficult because everyone had a little fiefdom they wanted to protect. Even though I don't think (reasonable) NDAs are that big of a deal, I had way more of them at a smaller company. A bigger company is much more vertically integrated so they aren't necessary. And it's not like I'm gonna impress people at a party by reciting proprietary Xilinx datasheets.