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0 pointsbabycake6y ago0 comments

That's not engineers, that's managers putting pressure on engineers to provide this kind of environment. We don't the shots on anything, it's your manager and the manager above that who do.

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rhinoceraptor6y ago

  The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his
  Government or of a superior does not relieve him from
  responsibility under international law, provided a moral
  choice was in fact possible to him.

ncr1006y ago

I disagree.

Managers don't build the technology. Engineers do.

And EVERYONE in the org is responsible - so everyone may be in a state of mental disbelief or denial.

After recognizing the negative ethical implications of either the work itself / the manner you're being asked to work in, or the technology you're being asked to build, and then - still being professional - after communicating your objections and seeing a failure by management to sufficiently acknowledge the complaints, the next step I'd recommend is to quit. You can get another job - even if it's a "work visa" scenario, get a recruiter and another job.

The company can be free to go on and do it's unethical thing on its own.

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