In my experience it’s the other way around.
Both sides.
I constantly call out juniors who do things like ignore warnings, completely unaware that the warning is going to cause serious tech debt in a few months.
But Ive also unfortunately shrugged after seeing hundreds of warnings because to update this requires me to go through 3 layers of departments and we're still waiting on these six other blockers.
Pick and choose I guess.
Yeah I’m one of the “I only want to write this fucker once so I will make it as solid as I can” types… and my manager/team-lead/principal dev (all the same person - that’s a whole other story) is the “yolo send it” type.
We do not get on well. I’m probably going to switch teams or jobs soon.
If you work for FAANG you're morally bankrupt
But financially bussin'!
And also, it's actually a complicated question. A one-man boycott doesn't do anything. If you work at a FAANG, work for a better world when you're off, and go whistleblower when they do something really evil, I find no fault in that at all.
The other consideration is that pretty much every company you could work for as a software developer is going to try to take advantage of your work. Most companies are morally bad at best and morally terrible at worst. If you discourage any good person from working there, the problem will only snowball from there.
If working at FAANG gives you the resources to support things you're passionate about, and you're willing to stand up for your values when they do something bad, there isn't a problem with that IMO.
You could say the same about eating meat or any other cause. What's the difference, the animal is already dead anyway, right? Well, it's not that simple.
Thanks to the growing number of people who eat less or no meat at all, meat production is decreasing. If all of them kept saying that one man boycott makes no difference, the change would not come.
If you can't find a better job - fine, work for the evil FAANG or whatever. We live in capitalism and it's clear we need to work somewhere. But at least be honest and don't look away from inconvenient truth. There's still something good you could do while keeping the job at
$evil_company. For example, you can support financially those who haven't got nice jobs in IT.
I work at a FAANG company. I've also worked at startups and smaller national companies. They're all morally bankrupt, just in many different ways.
Hell, I've worked for "tech for good" clients that have done reprehensible things that required legal intervention...
I thought we decided FAANGM was better as FAGMAN.
"Pepsiman" started playing in my head, but instead of pepsiman it was f****tman
It was the Batman theme for me. Na nanana na na... fagmaaaaannnn
and CI/CD goes "f*ck you, no deployment today, Linter is unhappy"
