Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?

Re:Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This ... by clubm8 on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:51PM (#18171631)

I think there's a lot of good, moral work out there.

I have a friend who's a security engineer at a bank. I was surprised when he took the job - he'd always been pretty to the left politically.

But he takes pride in making sure the grandmas of the world don't get their accounts drained. He realizes he's not saving the world, but he's not swapping around debt vouchers until the economy crashes.

It's counter intuitive, but in his mind he's more moral than someone working at Google or Facebook.

(He also brags to me about the vacation - apparently they're encouraged to take their time for anti-fraud reasons?)

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Re:Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This ... by alleyshack on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:59PM (#18171699)

My understanding is that the anti-fraud vacation thing is related to being able to correlate a decrease in fraud with a specific person going on vacation. If you have money that mysteriously goes missing on the regular and 10 employees who touch it along the way, it's hard to determine which of those employees is responsible. If one of them goes away on vacation for a week and no money goes missing that entire week, you suddenly have a much better idea who might have been involved.

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Re:Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This ... by clubm8 on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:03PM (#18172076)

Also, it makes sure there are no single points of failure. Apparently many embezzlers refuse to take vacation for fear someone will look over the books and notice irregularities.

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