Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs

Re:Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ B... by newnewpdro on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:37PM (#22121171)

It makes sense to go work for an unethical company if you're unskilled and/or lazy, and will essentially sit on your hands while burning their resources on a useless employee.

Otherwise, you're depriving an ethical organization of your contributions while aiding the competition.

Unless you're entering a leadership role it's very unlikely you'll be changing a damn thing from within, while being corrupted by the surely lavish compensation an unethical company generally can afford to shower on its individual contributors.

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Re:Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ B... by ForHackernews on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:02PM (#22121991)

> It makes sense to go work for an unethical company if you're unskilled and/or lazy, and will essentially sit on your hands while burning their resources on a useless employee.

Now this is the kind of motivated reasoning I can get behind. I'm not lazy, I'm genuinely heroic!

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Re:Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ B... by jacquesm on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:26PM (#22121638)

Every company is to more or lesser degree unethical. I've yet to come across a company that was 100% good. So you will always be making this trade-off, I'm asking for it to be a conscious one and to then push in the right direction from where it has the most effect.

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Re:Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ B... by magduf on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:08PM (#22122588)

While I agree that I haven't found any 100% good companies, I have yet to see a company where any low-level engineer has any real input at all and can actually make any kind of difference as far as ethics. If you work up into management, sure, but then you're no longer an engineer.

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