It doesn't mention any specifics, then it jumps into assuming that Google / FAANG have more assholes? These are companies that operate at the sort of scale whe

It doesn't mention any specifics, then it jumps into assuming that Google / FAANG have more assholes? These are companies that operate at the sort of scale where you harvest huge amounts of data about people and then use it to maximize your profit regardless of the impact on the people themselves. Those are asshole tactics, and people who think "I'll get paid a lot to work on that!" are probably skewed towards the asshole end of the spectrum of all humans. I don't think it's a huge leap to believe FAANGs overrepresent the number of assholes they employ. I also don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. As much as many of the staff are assholes, the companies make things a shitload of people want. There's some good in that. You can be an asshole, make a pile of money, and still be doing good work. (Of course, if you're reading this and you work for a FAANG I don't mean ~you~. Although, if you're reading HN... )