I worked at an Adtech company for a short while. It was the most toxic place I've ever worked. Beyond how they treated their employees, they were giddy with excitement about making a deal with a large hotel chain that gave them access to smart tvs so they could listen in and "capture data" from people staying at the hotel. When I realized what kind of people were running the place I quickly found another job. I had no doubt they would have used information gathered about me to try to control me as an employee, so I left before they could try.
That’s wild. I wonder if those people were just so immersed that they never actually took a step back and considered the larger picture? Cuz anecdotally ik some advertisers that don’t consider themselves “advertisers” but rather their ads as a piece of art and then expressing their creativity.
Honestly not sure if I would feel better if it was some heuristic blocking a true realization of their actions or just classifying them as evil lol
I've worked at an Adtech company. It was great. The people were fantastic and diverse. The actual 'tech' part of Adtech is actually really interesting and also challenging.
>I've worked at an Adtech company. It was great. The people were fantastic and diverse.
Thanks for sharing your anecdote, but the same "fantastic and diverse" people you worked with could still be doing morally and ethically questionable things to get their paychecks.
>The actual 'tech' part of Adtech is actually really interesting and also challenging.
Atomic bombs are also "interesting and challenging" to make, that doesn't mean that using them is a good thing.
Same. One time my boss (the head of engineering) got so pissed at his cousin, that he hired through nepotism, that he punched a filing cabinet. It was a wild sight.
