Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 years, announced his resignation Thursday in a mass email sent to thousands of colleagues, protesting the company's continued cloud services contracts with the Israeli military.
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Microsoft employee suddenly grows moral compass and quits Microsoft--not for any specific reason to quit Microsoft which are legion--but over Israel.
There, fixed it for you.
He has no moral compass. He just hates Israel.
That IS his moral compass!
From Google’s Project Maven protests in 2018 to Amazon and Palantir facing internal dissent over surveillance contracts there is a pattern emerging where highly skilled employees see their work as inseparable from its downstream effects. In Glowski’s words we hear not just a protest against one contract but a larger demand that technology firms actively account for the human impact of their platforms...