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Comment by aj_g | Hacker News Reader

Props to you.

I am incredibly far away from the world of SV/FAANG, so tell me, is FB really becoming a less desirable place to work? It seems to me like it's a pretty small minority of people that would refuse a $1XX,000 paycheck on grounds of being a ethically dubious snowflake in the avalanche that is Facebook.

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Don't gauge the real.world based on Hacker News. 99% of keyboard warriors will sign 250k USD+ total comp offers in a jiffy.

The way I see it, in the right city somebody with our skillset can step outside and trip over an offer with a very comfortable salary. In that context, I don't think there's much excuse for going out and choosing to make the world a worse place, even if you'd get paid 2x that very comfortable salary.

People always want more.

I'm not saying you're wrong, just saying it's morally unjustifiable.

You can still find incredibly good compensation in our realm without working for a FAANG. Yeah - they have resources to pay out the nose but there's a lot of places to land that don't have huge public-facing ethics issues hanging over your head.

Maybe I'm being an idealist punk for feeling this way but I'll take less pay to be able to live with myself... Especially in regards to the places that I've given a hard-no: Walmart and Facebook as these companies are actively hurting my country every day.

I think the effect is small, but real. If nothing else it gives the comparable FAANGs an edge. That said I'm not in The Valley and don't know anybody who works at a FAANG.

It's more like a $2xx,000–$4xx,000 paycheck…

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