> do you have a list of objective criteria you use to decide which list of companies is morally acceptable for your candidates to have worked at

As a matter of fact I do.

> Isn’t this also incredibly hypocritical given that you admit to working at FB yourself in the past

It is. I excuse myself by saying that it was creepy but not overtly evil at the point where I left. To be honest, I think I got out at just the right time to have a small shred of morality left, but of course I would say that and others may differ. I am sure lots of people do not care, and the fact that my work at FB in its early days gets me interviews shows this to be a widespread opinion, but I have been inside the factory and have seen how the sausage is made. I have a date I keep in my head, and if you were at FB after that point you would be a 'no hire' for me.

Yeah. So you worked at FB, made your dirty money, got your new role, and are now demonizing others who made the same decision as you. But it’s different for you, or course, and easy to do now that you’ve made your cash. You are just as immoral as the candidates you are rejecting, if not more.

Your childish belief that companies are static entities and that the moral calculus of a job doesn't change over time makes this entire conversation a fools errand. Searching for simple black and white answers for complex problems never seems to work well. Sorry you were never good enough to make the cut and will never face these kinds of questions, but the simple fact is that at one point it was different and the company grew into something else entirely.