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That's unfair on the employees. Sure, Zynga has a reputation as a scummy company with low morals, but I don't think it has a bad technical reputation. And the d
by joosters 13y ago
That's unfair on the employees. Sure, Zynga has a reputation as a scummy company with low morals, but I don't think it has a bad technical reputation. And the day-to-day programmers, architects and designers won't have had much influence on the behaviour of the company. I don't think they'll be tarnished, and it would be dumb for a potential employer to reject them just because they worked there.
- gaius 13y agoRight, imagine a hypothetical employee whose job it was to make tobacco more addictive. "But the company doesn't have a bad chemical reputation..." EDIT: Downvoters, do you really not think that a person's personal ethics can be judged from the work they choose to do?
- nsxwolf 13y agoSometimes you can certainly judge a person's personal ethics based on the work they choose to do. But silly mobile games using a business model SV geeks don't like? No. In the grand scheme of things Zynga is trivial and harmless.
- jlgreco 13y ago> In the grand scheme of things Zynga is trivial and harmless. In the "grand scheme" those "whales" are lost in the noise, so yes. In the grand scheme they were trivial and harmless.
- gaius 13y agoIn the 90s when boo.com imploded (you might not remember them but they were huge) my company wanted to hire some of them. I prevailed against it then. Boo collapsed because they partied their way through their investor's money. Regardless of any other skills, they all had a spectactularly poor attitude to other people's money. You don't want that kind of culture to take root in an organization.