Some of it is laziness. The CS guys here only ever talk about applying for big name companies and become depressed when they get rejected. Ask them why they’re only applying for FAANG or Lockheed or Raytheon and they’ll insist it’s because no one else pays like them. But that’s not even true. I’ve seen many jobs in local government or local/lesser known companies that pay the same or more than entry-mid level MIC jobs. They just refuse to put in effort to look.
Then the other part is self compartmentalization. They just simply do not think about the consequences of their work. They go to work and modify some bomb blueprints, or watch a missile launch in glee, or design a system that can track all people with certain disabilities, or do a teams call to pitch a product to ICE and the CIA. Then they go home, go hiking, go to brunch. They simply don’t think beyond that, 401ks, and a house. Maybe they get upset when they flip through the news and see something about gas prices rising and some schoolgirls getting blown up. That’s it.
When I graduated college, one of the first jobs I applied to was at a small software company in the bumfuck nowhere I grew up. They’d taken me on as an unpaid intern, then again as a paid intern (minimum wage!), but when I wanted to work for an actual engineer’s salary, they rejected me.
Not strictly related, I’m just still pissed about that and needed to vent.
Hey I’m a CS person who didn’t go big tech we exist lol. I don’t think everybody in big tech is inherently doing evil but many do, it’s shocking the types of job descriptions people will happily accept.
Some of it is laziness. The CS guys here only ever talk about applying for big name companies and become depressed when they get rejected. Ask them why they’re only applying for FAANG or Lockheed or Raytheon and they’ll insist it’s because no one else pays like them. But that’s not even true. I’ve seen many jobs in local government or local/lesser known companies that pay the same or more than entry-mid level MIC jobs. They just refuse to put in effort to look.
Then the other part is self compartmentalization. They just simply do not think about the consequences of their work. They go to work and modify some bomb blueprints, or watch a missile launch in glee, or design a system that can track all people with certain disabilities, or do a teams call to pitch a product to ICE and the CIA. Then they go home, go hiking, go to brunch. They simply don’t think beyond that, 401ks, and a house. Maybe they get upset when they flip through the news and see something about gas prices rising and some schoolgirls getting blown up. That’s it.
When I graduated college, one of the first jobs I applied to was at a small software company in the bumfuck nowhere I grew up. They’d taken me on as an unpaid intern, then again as a paid intern (minimum wage!), but when I wanted to work for an actual engineer’s salary, they rejected me.
Not strictly related, I’m just still pissed about that and needed to vent.
Hey I’m a CS person who didn’t go big tech we exist lol. I don’t think everybody in big tech is inherently doing evil but many do, it’s shocking the types of job descriptions people will happily accept.