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I understand the ethical concerns when choosing to join a company, but I'm not quite sure I follow your reasoning regarding some of the specific companies you listed. Skeptical about Google and Meta, but not Microsoft, which also doesn't exactly have a clean name when it comes to questionable operating practices? Suspicious about Netflix, but JP Morgan seemingly flies under the radar?

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To be honest, I was giving a gut first impression. A lot of the financial companies are without a doubt questionable as well, just not in ways that came immediately to mind as soon as I heard their names. JPMorgan definitely qualifies, but for whatever reason, I don't personally think "morally bankrupt" or "abuses its employees" when I think JPMorgan, even though both of those could be true. Successful marketing on their part maybe, given their role in the '08 crisis and so on?

Microsoft, to be honest, I'd still be open to. Their anticompetitive behavior is a big issue, but I don't know that I find them to be as 100%-tainted by it. With Microsoft I'd be more concerned about lack of quality control or care for end-users.

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