During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, a Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.” They were later fired.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094687/google-israel-project-nimbus-employee-fired
It takes a lot of courage to throw away your job, potentially career and livelihood, for your principles.
Really just the job, right? They can still get hired for their next job to not be evil.
Would be nice if that were the case. However, a reputation or being known at least in the tech industry for being a “problem” employee definitely can harm your options.
Which tech company would that be?
Guy worked at Google. Could have basically gotten a tech job anywhere with that on his resume.
My understanding is that no one’s been getting hired in tech right now due to all the hiring freezes. What world do y’all live in?
I got hired ~5 months ago at a big tech company.
Fair enough. That hasn’t been my experience for the last almost 2 years. Teams in our org have been told that if they lose people they can’t hire replacements. Shit’s sucked
I’ve also been hearing about massive layoffs at tons of the biggest companies. I’d be surprised if they were still hiring, obviously.
Work in tech. I still regularly get recruitment emails. if I had google on my LinkedIn, I assume I would be getting at least twice as many.