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Setting aside whether this is hyperbole or not, not that I disagree with the claim generally, one very real impact of their malfeasance is their reputation amo
by aaroninsf 5y ago
Setting aside whether this is hyperbole or not, not that I disagree with the claim generally,
one very real impact of their malfeasance is their reputation among their prospective and existing workforce.
It is not an exaggeration to say that I have never—not in 25 years in the industry—known or known of or read accounts of people who variously quit over their amorality, have turned down offers (including at VERY high levels) over it, or confronted recruiters with challenges around it (historically resulting in cessation of recruiting efforts; hottake: they will not be able to do that any longer, because it will winnow their pool too aggressively).
I myself harbor acute emnity to them and have been ignoring a persistent recruiter for many months over this; and am regularly down-voted here for saying what I'm going to say again:
If you work for them, quit.
If you do business with them, don't.
There should be consequences for this level of amorality. If you think it's the status quo, you're simply factually wrong; there is no shortage of other companies, working in related domains, who do not feel that damage to the health and wellbeing of either their clients or the society in which they operate is a natural, inevitable, and excusable cost of doing business.
They are not the root cause of, but are massive enabler of, forces which pose an existential threat to our democracy.
Their reputation is merely coming into alignment with a truth they have invested hundreds of millions of dollars suppressing.