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>>claude+(OP)
A few months ago I was in the job market and got a call from a recruiter at Amazon. I flatly told them that I wasn't interested in working for Amazon on ethical grounds.

At the time it was purely out of principle, but apparently it was a good decision for my self-interest as well.

I wonder how long they can keep this stuff up before they start seriously damaging their desirability as a workplace, the way Facebook has?

>>_bxg1+aB
Props to you.

I am incredibly far away from the world of SV/FAANG, so tell me, is FB really becoming a less desirable place to work? It seems to me like it's a pretty small minority of people that would refuse a $1XX,000 paycheck on grounds of being a ethically dubious snowflake in the avalanche that is Facebook.

>>aj_g+JE
Don't gauge the real.world based on Hacker News. 99% of keyboard warriors will sign 250k USD+ total comp offers in a jiffy.

>>mav3ri+VE
The way I see it, in the right city somebody with our skillset can step outside and trip over an offer with a very comfortable salary. In that context, I don't think there's much excuse for going out and choosing to make the world a worse place, even if you'd get paid 2x that very comfortable salary.

>>_bxg1+oL
You can still find incredibly good compensation in our realm without working for a FAANG. Yeah - they have resources to pay out the nose but there's a lot of places to land that don't have huge public-facing ethics issues hanging over your head.

Maybe I'm being an idealist punk for feeling this way but I'll take less pay to be able to live with myself... Especially in regards to the places that I've given a hard-no: Walmart and Facebook as these companies are actively hurting my country every day.