evacideIf you are looking for a job that is fully remote and also not evil, DuckDuckGo is hiring for several positions: https://duckduckgo.com/hiring
Oliver D. Reithmaier@evacide seniors once again :(
Junior markets seem dead.
Maya Granade@evacide one position in my skillset and it's ai integration.
Mudd ~: 
They look to have all some aspect of LLM, unfortunately
RyeNCode 🇨🇦@Muddobbers @kevingranade @evacide
Yep, is all non-starter stuff for me 😢
Morally, Ethically & Professionally I cannot submit to the AI,genAI,LLM quack-fest.
Yep, is all non-starter stuff for me 😢
Morally, Ethically & Professionally I cannot submit to the AI,genAI,LLM quack-fest.
Drew 🇵🇭@evacide
Senior backend engineer (the kind of thing I would do):
"Implementing AI-assisted answers and integrating them into our Search product"
Not evil? Ha! Hahaha!
Cassandrich
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@toriver @drewph @evacide After Google I'd hoped everyone would have learned. A search engine needs to be saying one of:
1. "We are not a business. We will not be run as a business, and here is how we intend to fund operations without being a business", or
2. "We are a business. Here is the way we make money and here is how we've set that up so that it does not conflict with your interests as a user of the service."
"Um, we're doing exactly like old Google with pinky-promises about 'evil' and no clear legitimate way to make money, and actively partnering with them and Microsoft to repackage their results" does not cut it.
Mongoose Studios
Ariaflame@MongooseStudios @drewph @evacide The most that can be said is it's a lot easier to opt out of the AI stuff.
Father Hardstone@ariaflame @MongooseStudios @drewph @evacide
Qwant and Startpage do that a lot better !
@drewph @MongooseStudios @evacide
Hey, that does not happen with me and I am literally sitting in a shithole (#Pakistan) but I guess you should use startpage then 🤷♂️
stiller_leser@evacide I mean, its paid at least, but having to do two projects for them before you even talk to the team, seems like a strange way to acquire talent...
Thomas Hunter II@evacide TIL DDG is mostly written in Perl
Teoh Han Hui
sleeperImplementing AI-assisted answers and integrating them into our Search product while maintaining our privacy-first approach
(And OP blocked me, just for calling "AI" evil.)
@teohhanhui 😖 That's not OK ! That's not even a personal attack or anything like that. My personal issues with DDG is their "censorship policies" regarding "certain kind of content" and sometimes also related to news
JamesK
Doodles
Scott V Burger@evacide as a daily DDG user I never thought to apply there until now, so thanks for raising awareness
Maki 🔻 💚PRO❤️@evacide Their push for "agentic" processes annoys me to no end.
Utopia 
Martijn VosWhat is their tech stack? Various job descriptions list perl, node.js, python, go, kotlin, c#, swift. Are there any languages they won't use?
I'll have to consider this. Pay is a lot better than what I'm used to, and if I want to work for an American company, DDG is probably better than most.
GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸@evacide "and also not evil". I miss the days when that was not a job requirement.
Dźwiedziu@grumpydad
And we have to grade the acceptable level of “not evil” that we're willing to apply to :/
me_valentijn@evacide
Have you not looked at what DuckDuckGo has been doing lately, or is everything you say so unreliable? The positions involve AI, and then there's this gem:
Have you not looked at what DuckDuckGo has been doing lately, or is everything you say so unreliable? The positions involve AI, and then there's this gem:
Thankful Machine@evacide It ain’t Google, but “not evil”? Not so fast.
Pip@evacide Not evil? Then this seems like a good time to remind people that duckduckgo:
1. Is building planet-roasting, de-skilling AI
2. Is lying about censoring adult-oriented results
DDG's no google, but they're just another shitty tech company in my book.
Crystal_Fish_Caves@pip ty I have been feeling bad about dumping them. trying to ween off google but the two started fighting moving shit back and forth duck had to go.
Bredroll
Odin Halvorson@evacide
If only I had literally any skills good companies want 😅
If only I had literally any skills good companies want 😅