For me, it's Palantir, and any military government contractors such as Anduril, for obvious reasons I think. Another one is Facebook. The concept of increasing engagement through using ML to cater towards people's confirmation biases, and being an open platform for things like recruiting for terrorism, videos of hate crimes, child trafficking, etc just does not sit right with me. I don't mind slaving away for capitalist interests, but I can't support companies that essentially make money off of the suffering of ordinary people.
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Op I’m pretty sure you would work for palantir if they offered you $1m TC
but their TC is not $1m given my experience, and if I was worth $1m to palantir, I would be worth that much if not more to other companies too, so this is a nonexistent hypothetical.
Twitter is pointing out that when you say “never”, you don’t mean “never”.
I would not work for Palantir for 1mil TC. 15 mil would be where the convo would start. Not ever working for basecamp or coinbase or juul.
Coinbase? Lol
Basecamp?!?!
Used to be Facebook ... 🤑
Haha! Now you just look at your checking account and mumble "you got this, son!" :D
It’s like Scarface. You don’t know when you’ve been consumed.
Offer me enough money I’ll work just about anywhere for a year or two.
Future drug lord
OP you work for amazon lmfao. You cannot have a moral high ground against facebook
I think Amazon is a net benefit to society while Facebook is not. Also the org I work in is not a very profitable one and actively works to improve people's lives.
Not at all. Amazon first of fucking hates their employees. It’s disgusting business practice. Union busting warehouse workers and grinding them to the ground is a shameful practice. Amazon has provided tech to ICE for cracking down on immigrants. Same type of shit palantir is known for. Amazon is a net negative to society. There is no pride working here.
Literally all of FAANG. I know I’m not a culture fit at Amazon or Netflix - wouldn’t enjoy the culture either of them have built. Apple seems too “corporate” - like stodgy old fashioned company corporate, and layers of bureaucracy. Every time I’ve interviewed at Google they have seemed to want me to be a super fan of multiple products…I’m like bruh, y’all are search, my email, and YouTube - what else do you really expect me to care about? Facebook I literally abhor what FB and IG are and have done to society (not entirely their fault, humans are shallow and stupid) but I’d have zero interest in helping them grow. Other factors contributing to me not wanting to work for them, I don’t like large/enterprise companies, as a marketer, large companies mean your role becomes super niche and while you can move around, your day to day in the role can become mundane given you work on such a small slice. Also, I’ve been in B2B and don’t really care to be in B2C - it’s a whole different skill set and you affect less.
Sour grapes much?
Um no. I’ve had an offer from Google in the past that I didn’t take, FAANG isn’t the end all be all for everyone, my second paragraph tells why.
Good that we have the higher moral ground at Amazon. We would never enter a contract with the military or ICE .... wait ....
I don't think providing a cloud computing platform to the government is the same as having a business built around enabling these things. Every large company, whether it be G or msft has done the same thing, and yes, this is a moral boundary I am willing to cross.
fun fact, it actually is just as bad! even if other companies do it!
What is wrong with working for a military contractor? Why is the assumption that companies involved with the military are inherently unethical? If Palantir helps the military be more organised and efficient with their data, what is the problem with that? This is a serious question - I would like to understand this point of view.
I don't fw the military industrial complex, I don't fw peter thiel, and I don't fw what palantir is doing.
Companies involved in the military are not inherently unethical. Companies built around it, especially private companies leveraging tech to fuck minorities domestically and around the world, cross the line for me.
I would work in defense. If you have been following the news, you would know that there is currently a need which is not being met in the west. I wouldn’t mind facebook. I would not do Amazon, due to the perception that they don’t treat their employees fairly.
Everything has a price my friend.
Agreed!
I agree. But realistically, most people aren't getting paid 10x market rate to work at a company like Palantir, and if someone is, I would not hold it against them. I'm looking at this through the lens of realistic possibilities and not hypotheticals that would not happen.