Pros
Remarkable opportunity for anyone comfortable with a certain institutional incuriosity about where user data ultimately settles. The business model operates like a magician’s act — information enters, attention is directed elsewhere, and outcomes remain elegantly unverified. HR will confirm everything is fully compliant. Compliant with what remains a fascinating open question. Management projects remarkable confidence for an organization whose privacy documentation is difficult to independently corroborate. The office plants are real and visibly thriving, which is genuinely the most transparent thing on the premises. If ambiguity reads to you as opportunity rather than warning, you will advance quickly here. Those with functioning risk instincts may find the cognitive load unsustainable
Cons
• You are now an instrument of surveillance capitalism — Foucault’s panopticon, but with worse dental
• Free will feels theoretical when your job is architecturally designed around harvesting consent nobody actually gave
• Ligotti warned us consciousness was a mistake; this job is the proof of concept
• You will rationalize everything until you can’t — then you’ll rationalize that too
• Complicity is slow. You won’t notice until your LinkedIn says “3 years”