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STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus (www.wired.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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More than 1,100 self-identified STEM students and young workers from over 120 universities have signed a pledge to not take jobs or internships at Google or Amazon until the companies end their involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services and infrastructure to the Israeli government.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That's great! Unfortunately for every one of them there's 4x more who gladly would

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but it's something that wasn't there before so it matters. Current and past gens have fucked it ALL up so these kids are part of something positive. And future lies with them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'll say that if the really talented people are signing on to this, that could be noticeable. I know Amazon tends to just churn through devs every year, but actually good software engineers are surprisingly hard to find.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

They are, but I'm still disheartened. Googlers tried to take a stand last year and they immediately paid them all off