My point was that if you are making a decision explicitly on salary and interesting technology it was a good choice. I'm sorry if this was not clear. Were you

My point was that if you are making a decision explicitly on salary and interesting technology it was a good choice. I'm sorry if this was not clear. Were you asking me to explain my point because you find the existence of a rational explanation for intelligent people working for the company extremely offensive? It's a common fallacy to assume that political beliefs are connected to intelligence. You should always consider the possibility that there are smart people who hold different political/ethical positions to you. The engineers that joined might not consider the publication evil, and they might not like the grossly-offensive insinuation by you that they are like western prostitutes in Saudi Arabia (?!).