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There are a lot of shitty people that work for all the big companies (and many of the small ones). Google has 140,000 employees. I'm sure there are hundreds of assholes among that group.

Microsoft has 220,000 employees, so they probably employ even more assholes. Even the beloved Apple has plenty of shitty people and assholes working for it.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. None of these companies are perfect, they are going to hire talented people that happen to be shitty individuals. It happens. That doesn't make it right, but its real life.

I'm all for judging a company on its merits. But lets judge it based on what they actually do or don't do. If they are doing stuff that's destroying the environment or they are encouraging slave labor or something then let's talk. But because one guy who was an acquihire is an asshole, it doesn't give me enough incentive to boycott a company.