[ryandrake]

I started doing this, but so many companies are bad that it's pretty career-limiting. Ultimately every company is, or one day will be, solely focused on "maximize shareholder value forever" as their one and only imperative. You just have to find the least bad ones.

[freejazz]

Meta's problem isn't that they "maximize shareholder value" it's how they decided to go about doing it.

[throwaway894345]

I would love to learn if people have structured approaches for identifying companies that are in that "least bad" band, but yeah, I agree that as long as we have a system based on extreme wealth inequality, it's going to be pretty difficult to find moral work. At the end of the day most of us are working to make billionaires richer--in the best case we do that by genuinely creating value, but frequently it's about taking money away from some middle or lower class person (however indirectly).

[fsflover]

One way to decide is whether the company has a dedicated Wikipedia page with criticism, or, for the next level, a section.

[ImPostingOnHN]

Imagine yourself describing to your relatives how the company has made money and see how embarrassed you feel.

[throwaway894345]

The difficulty isn't in making the moral assessment, it's in searching through tens of thousands of employers and understanding their business models.