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Facebook had an engineer commit suicide and the company tried to cover it up. Going as far as firing an engineer that spoke up about it - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgn9q/do-not-discuss-the-in...

So yes, this does happen. Typically to visa workers who are easily exploitable due to their precarious status in the country.

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> Typically to visa workers who are easily exploitable due to their precarious status in the country.

This is the key point about this experience to me. The fact was that without the visa situation, the author would have had many more choices. Unfortunately, it seems like the lack of viable alternatives was taken advantage of to the hilt (and presumably the author wasn't the first or last employee so affected).

Same thing at Uber

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/27/is-uber-...

Apple had its own tragedy, but the details are unknown.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-death-idUSKCN0XP383

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