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In my experience, a small number of employers are exceptionally good and principled (like mine), a small number are egregiously bad and unprincipled (like Facebook) and the vast majority are just regular, neither really good nor bad capitalistic outfits.
My point being, there's a whole spectrum of bad and you can easily find better than Facebook as a place of employment if principles matter to you.
I agree that there is a spectrum and that Facebook is certainly on the extreme end of the spectrum. But it's not the topic of this thread that places them there. This thread is about performance based layoffs, something that is incredibly common in the tech industry. Most have quotas for "bad evaluations" and PIP that they target every cycle. It's a dishonest approach and I don't think I should have to explain how absurd it is to that these quotas exist. This is what I was speaking to in my previous comment and this is why most of these companies are "unprincipled" and belong somewhere on the "bad spectrum", in my opinion.