I feel like for so many in our field, the dream is to work at Facebook/Google/Amazon/Netflix/etc. For a while I thought I might wind up at a place like that someday as well, but nowadays, I think I'd rather not.
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The same argument applies for a lot of abuse related jobs: if you improve a phishing classifier by just a bit, it's thousands of users' bank login info that you prevent from going to criminals. And pretty much everyone (even Firefox) uses Google services for this (Safebrowsing).
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Other minor benefits: a fairly stable job situation, a lot of transfer opportunities when you get bored with $project, predictable stupidly high income, and at least at Google the possibility to try and fight back the unethical things from the inside when they pop up.
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... but when cost-of-living is taken into account, you can earn a ridiculously good living working remotely for a venture-backed startup. Mid-tier Bay salary in cheap cities is where it's at 