Those who work at Facebook, Amazon, Palantir, etc. Do you feel guilt?
If so, how do you deal with it?
There’s a little bit of emotional manipulation in here. By asking “do you feel guilt“ assumes there is guilt to be felt. “Those who work for the government, do you feel guilt?” The same question could be applied in a number of ways, but it frontload the negative emotion by implying that the existence of guilt is there.
Better way to ask that question:
Those of you who work at Facebook, Amazon, Palantir, etc. Does the act of your job or workplace evoke any strong emotions?
Absolutely. I was laid off after PPP ran out last year from a small (~20) company. Applied to a bunch of companies, went through a couple of interviews, no offers. Gave in and replied to an FAANG recruiter that had been emailing me and got the job. I like my team and work/life balance, but planning on jumping ship in the near future specifically because I don't want to work for FAANG anymore. As for how to deal with it, the money helps ha. But it does start to weigh down on you. I like to think I wouldn't have ever worked at such a company if not for covid.
I don't work at a FAANG, but I work at a company that wants to be like a FAANG. Now and even if I did work at a FAANG, I would feel 0 guilt. The only reason I don't apply there is because of work life balance, but I'd gladly program attack UAVs or eviction services if it got me a FAANG salary AND a good work life balance.
Do you feel guilt asking this question?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
It's this smug holier-than-thou sanctimony that any successful company is ipso facto evil, the bigger evil.
I purposely left this to be quite ambiguous to get a broad range of responses.
Who are the "etc." here?
What do you feel guilty about?
Why don't you feel guilt?