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0 pointsForHackernews6y ago0 comments

This isn't that hard: Just don't work for the evil ones! If their recruiters contact you, tell them why.

There are plenty of non-evil companies that will pay you well to do interesting work.

Even in your "FAANG" list, Netflix just makes entertaining videos. Apple makes pleasantly overpriced hardware and competes on privacy in software.

Apply to them, instead of ad-tech and sweatshops-as-a-service.

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wgerard6y ago· 1 in thread

Just to play devil's advocate a little:

You should look up some of the ethical issues around cobalt mining [1], which Apple is at least indirectly complicit in.

Netflix famously made their culture documents transparent to much derision about their workplace being an unhealthy competitive environment. Relatedly, they're also arguably the most famous progenitor of the "unlimited-vacation-but-don't-actually-take-it-or-else" workplace cliche.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/a...

ForHackernewsOP6y ago

Maybe we should revise this to "try to work for companies that are only indirectly (rather than directly) evil"

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