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550 points polskibus | 5 comments | 08 Feb 19 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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locklock ◴[08 Feb 19 16:47 UTC] No.19116039[source]▶
I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
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duxup ◴[08 Feb 19 17:49 UTC] No.19116769[source]▶
It sounds like a fun challenge.

It's just ads. If we're talking about some ad for a coffee maker, whatever.

Now their whole selling data to unscrupulous folks, taking money from parents via their kids, selling fake news that makes people hate other people (now that gets into the ad space...) ....

That's where I'd want to nope out.

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1. ishanjain28 ◴[08 Feb 19 21:41 UTC] No.19118958[source]▶
There was an study done on some students from top universities in US.

The question they were given was, If they would work for Facebook given all kinds of scandals they were involved in. A lot of people said they wouldn't work for Facebook but later when some of them received offers nobody declined those offers and went on to work for Facebook.

I am wondering if the same experiment on people already working in industry will yield different results.

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2. duxup ◴[08 Feb 19 22:14 UTC] No.19119184[source]▶
I like to think it would be different, but I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't any different.

Not likely I'll ever have to consider that problem so I'll remain morally confidant... if only due to circumstance ;)

3. oppositelock ◴[08 Feb 19 22:23 UTC] No.19119252[source]▶
It's hard to infer any conclusion from those numbers because we don't know how many people refused to interview and never received an offer.

Facebook pays REALLY well. That's a big deal fresh out of school too. Not all of us have the luxury of turning down a giant paycheck.

4. mattlong ◴[08 Feb 19 22:45 UTC] No.19119404[source]▶
"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."

-Mark Twain

5. whywhywhywhy ◴[08 Feb 19 23:36 UTC] No.19119669[source]▶
Students all have debts.

When reality hits that these debts need to be paid, principles go out the window.

I don’t blame anyone for this. In the end you have to look after number one. It’s just sad this is the reality.