> 90% of the time when I read descriptions it is excruciatingly obvious to me that whatever code the chosen candidates will end up writing at this job will be c

> 90% of the time when I read descriptions it is excruciatingly obvious to me that whatever code the chosen candidates will end up writing at this job will be completely removed from any important problem not only humanity, but even any individual human has ever had > ... > So far I haven’t had the chance to actually meet someone who would share these values in any significant sense and would want to do this kind of engineering work There are countless such places! There are NGOs that desperately need good engineers to build software that's essential to helping people. There are labs that do research on various disorders, or on hard engineering problems that need desperately software engineers. You're totally looking in the wrong places.