Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit

Re:Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit by cheshireoctopus on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:39PM (#21389892)

> no other profession has more opportunities to choose a moral employer.

Interesting.

Curious how many people actually evaluate the morality of their prospective employers.

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Re:Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit by nickserv on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:27PM (#21390503)

I do, to the extent that I won't work for a company that I believe is actively harming.

I've also chosen a salary cut for working for companies that I believe are actively helping.

Most of my IT friends think alike (which may be part of why we're friends ;-). For example a friend quit his job after realizing some things his work was enabling.

Purely anecdotal of course. But not nonexistent.

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Re:Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit by pgt on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:43AM (#21395163)

I have turned down immoral projects because I could afford to:

  - a conference room proxy that intercepted and replaced HTTP ads
  - an app for a quack that promoted a cancer cure
  - a high-paying gig in gambling software,
  - building a white-label browser that would give people in East Africa free airtime to punt horse-betting and hide its competitors' ads.

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Re:Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit by soganess on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:03PM (#21393986)

I do. I could go on about how I decide what is and is not moral, but that’s all my personal brand of compromised hogwash.

The really important part is that every interview has me honestly asking the interviewer about employee trust and revenue streams.

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