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I learned to code. I am good enough to get a job at a Google/Amazon/Facebook. Should I do it? I feel like it would be working for the devil, but I also feel like almost every job is like that. $200k/yr sounds pretty nice.
It depends where you are and what exactly you specialised in that could land you a big 5 tech job.
But the sorts of technical skills that get you those jobs (data science, machine learning, algorithms) can also get you a job at pretty much any company big enough to have a specialised logistics department or at a place that specializes in logistics/automation consulting, or even bespoke application development for a not horrible industry. Assuming you want to avoid finance, pharmaceuticals and anything involving the military that still leaves you with a whole lot. It depends a bit on where you are but there’s almost always something in mining, shipping, manufacturing, power, agriculture or non-pharma med-tech that’s going to be significantly less bad for everyone who’s not you than a job at the big 5.
I don’t want to doxx myself but if you open a jobseeker website, type in “software engineer” and set the pay at a 100k minimum you’re going to find pages and pages of results 80% of which are better for the world than working at google, and if you can pull a 200k+ job at google you could probably get more than half of them.
