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I don't work for them because I chose not to, but honestly, work for them, don't work for them, it's not like they'll lack for employees. If you write that line of code that eventually blows up a hospital or someone else does, it will still happen. You're not going to stop them by turning down job offers. You're going to need to change politics.
It will still happen is a bit of a fallacy. It’s one less person doing that job but I agree that one person won’t make a meaningful change
However the thing that changes is that if you reject that job you reduced by 100% your direct contribution to people killing missiles. Someone else will design that missile but at least you won’t have to live with the guilt that you did
Now, if it’s between that and a much worse life, I won’t blame anyone. But it’s a choice that everyone has to make for themselves. Personally I have possibility to reject those offers, and so I do.
They aren't immune to supply and demand, the job market is the agreegate of us all deciding what we will put up with to stay alive.
I totally agree, not taking the job can mean a HUGE thing to you. It just won't affect the company whatsoever.
I don't do it because I don't like it. I worked for DOD years ago, on non-dangerous stuff but it wasn't something I wanted to personally support.
When does a company decide to recruit? It's when current employees can't handle the workload and/or move projects ahead on schedule.
Not being recruited increases the hiring cycle time and means the development falls further behind schedule.
It's not nothing.
When does a company decide to recruit?
If anyone will take the job, there is zero difference to them. Humans are not statistically morale enough to hinder them more than paying well.
The sooner they hire someone the less time they spend understaffed and the more they have to pay whoever the hire. It's not a huge difference but it is also not zero.