Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List

Re:Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List by mc32 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:07PM (#21767764)

The big tech companies have not become lousy places to work for from one year to the next.

What has happened is two distinct things:

1. They are now regular companies (due to ubiquity and staff size). So there is lots of boring ordinary work—but with great perks.

2. In a subset of the staff, mostly idealists realize that they’re just another company, albeit high tech., but they are not creating the paradise cities that Japanese futurists thought up back in their heyday.

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Re:Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List by tenpies on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @07:07PM (#21768148)

I don't think number 2 is precise enough. For some of us it's not just that you're not building something good, it's that you're actually helping a company who is quite likely destroying society.

At worst, you're quite helping a totalitarian regime's intelligence apparatus.

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Re:Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List by djtriptych on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:15PM (#21767818)

As someone who interned in 2005 and worked full time in 2013, I have to say the changes were obvious.

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