You're not really joining a company whose mission is to make the world a better place, or at least just create a nice product.
You're joining a team of jackals trying to squeeze any money out of users that depend/love a specific product while putting these applications on minimal support.
I just think that at the end of the day it's nicer if you can think you contributed to the world, or even just one user making his life any better, that company just has none of it, it's mission is just plain the opposite.
Just how do you move from there? I helped Bending Spoons squeezing any money left in application X by butchering all non essential features and rising the price 3 times?
You can cringe all you want but "Will I be proud of the work I do here?" and "Do I think the work I do is a net benefit or drain to the world?" are pretty damn low bars for screening potential employers.
You have to really try to put in 40 hours of work a week and create negative value but by god they seem like they're best in class.
Like many places in the world the devs only care about the salaries. One reason why products made in specific countries are usualy low in quality. The devs dont give a damn.
> a company whose mission is to make the world a better place
I’m looking at the apps in the article and see a private app impersonating NOAA, one to “create stylish, impactful content for social media,” and a series of cheap knock-offs of best-in-class apps. They deserve to exist and make money, and there is no shame in working on them. But it’s hard to argue anyone was responding to a higher calling.
Developers are expensive. It’s hard to argue for geographic premiums on top of that, or maintaining the staff required in a build-up during maintenance or run-down, when WFH has challenged the first and basic economic reality (driven home by positive real interest rates) the latter.
