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From the U.S. perspective is it really still prestigious to work for them? I think these companies have been causing lots of ethical issues and having negative

From the U.S. perspective is it really still prestigious to work for them? I think these companies have been causing lots of ethical issues and having negative impacts on society lately all in the name of profit.

xkeysc0re 6y ago
Prestige has been replaced by money, I think. It used to be Google could pay a little below top tier since they had such a sterling reputation and interesting work to be done. Now they pay outrageous sums to secure their position and optimize ads
ActorNightly 6y ago
> I think these companies have been causing lots of ethical issues Pro tip: you can safely assume that any of the stuff you read online in terms of ethics in those companies exists solely for people to feel "woke" and for you to click on, and is highly biased. Do not take what you read online as the common viewpoint about those companies. Companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google has had way more positive impact on society that surpasses any negative things that they have done. The negative things should be ignored, but require proper contextualization and accuracy to really understand what the overall impact is.
- s1artibartfast 6y ago
  Did you mean should not be ignored?
  - ActorNightly 6y ago
    Yep mistype
- Grimm1 6y ago
  Strongly disagree. Facebook in particular. I'm with you on Amazon, and I founded a search engine because of my ethical beef with Google and general dissatisfaction with their product, their data collection is unethical and their search leaves a lot to be desired particularly for developers.
  - ActorNightly 6y ago
    Sure, but developers and tech savy people make up a very small percentage of the userbase. Most people don't care. If you go on the metric of how many people use the products these companies provide versus the drawbacks of using those services, both Facbook and Google are very valuable.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    Yet everyone here jumps of joy using stacks developed with Facebook money like React.

xkeysc0re 6y ago

Prestige has been replaced by money, I think. It used to be Google could pay a little below top tier since they had such a sterling reputation and interesting work to be done. Now they pay outrageous sums to secure their position and optimize ads

ActorNightly 6y ago

> I think these companies have been causing lots of ethical issues Pro tip: you can safely assume that any of the stuff you read online in terms of ethics in those companies exists solely for people to feel "woke" and for you to click on, and is highly biased. Do not take what you read online as the common viewpoint about those companies. Companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google has had way more positive impact on society that surpasses any negative things that they have done. The negative things should be ignored, but require proper contextualization and accuracy to really understand what the overall impact is.

s1artibartfast 6y ago
Did you mean should not be ignored?
- ActorNightly 6y ago
  Yep mistype
Grimm1 6y ago
Strongly disagree. Facebook in particular. I'm with you on Amazon, and I founded a search engine because of my ethical beef with Google and general dissatisfaction with their product, their data collection is unethical and their search leaves a lot to be desired particularly for developers.
- ActorNightly 6y ago
  Sure, but developers and tech savy people make up a very small percentage of the userbase. Most people don't care. If you go on the metric of how many people use the products these companies provide versus the drawbacks of using those services, both Facbook and Google are very valuable.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  Yet everyone here jumps of joy using stacks developed with Facebook money like React.