Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns

Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by dbt00 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:45PM (#16803356)

Bias: I've refused to work on any adtech revenue business, and I've passed on opportunities at Uber multiple times due to ... moral and ethical concerns.

I wouldn't hold experience at Uber or FB against any applicant.

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by karlkatzke on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:12PM (#16804200)

Yep. I once worked at a place that leveraged PII for profit. I won't work at a place like that again.

But I wouldn't hold working at Facebook against anyone, unless they knew and worked directly on monetizing PII and didn't see problems with it. That's for other reasons -- there are certain things you can't engineer without having a really good idea how, where, and why it'll be used. I don't want an engineer that is blindly solving technical problems.

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by wccrawford on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:41PM (#16803924)

Agreed. And besides that, I decided I didn't want to work for FB long ago, even if they somehow came calling... But it wasn't about ethics. Now it'd be about ethics, but I wasn't even aware they were doing anything unethical until now.

I'd expect people working there to know the deal a bit better, but even so they might not be directly involved with anything unethical, and even if they knew about unethical things, they might not have had an opportunity to switch jobs.

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