[bane]

The tradeoff may be that you might get to work on some of the hardest problems known.

At least harder than your average chat or photo sharing app.

[mindcrime]

to work on some of the hardest problems known

Like "how do we keep our torture camps secret?" and "what happens if we given random people LSD or other psychoactive drugs?"

I'll pass, thanks.

[bane]

I didn't say "morally pure" did I?

[mindcrime]

Fair enough!

[vonnik]

That's a one-sided view. The three-letter agencies may have done horrible things, but they are also leading the fight against even worse regimes, like Russia. There is no moral purity, and insulating oneself from the gray areas of geopolitics is a cop out.