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What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

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Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

#61
1. "Did you mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees?"

2. "Would you allow an employee who has acquired a concealed-carry license to arm herself on company property?"

3. "Do you donate to the Democrat party? How much? And what have you done to funnel company wealth to it?"

Rationale:

1. Coercing people to receive a medical treatment that they may not desire is a clear sign that the CEO lacks a moral compass - this is Nuremberg trials material. The groupthink in 2021 was: "the vaccines are effective and safe." Any skeptical CEO who resisted that groupthink, and respected an individual's right to remain in the control group for that medical experiment, demonstrated moral trustworthiness.

2. Respect for an individual's right to self defense is a clear sign of a moral compass. Individuals who have acquired CCLs must submit to background checks, complete a training course, and know the law on the use of lethal force in defending oneself - they as justified as police officers in carrying firearms. A CEO who has come to this understanding, and NOT established a policy contrary to it demonstrates moral trustworthiness.

3. The Democrat party has established itself as the party of moral erosion, for whom a consistent, universal morality does not exist. It is the party of moral relativism. And moral relativism is defined by it un-trustworthiness on morals. Soros and SBF are/were the two biggest donors to this party; they are walking examples of moral un-trustworthiness. We can probably nitpick, and ask a similar question about the Republican party, but those people are all about morality...right? That's a big reason why libs pick on them.

Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.. why would I flip it in the first place? Did I just disqualify myself as a CEO

Unironically, to a large demographic here, yes.

Fiiine, I Googled it.

.. I'll watch the film later.

Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

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post #52
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.. why would I flip it in the first place? Did I just disqualify myself as a CEO

Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.

deceased

Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

#64

If trustworthiness were able to be gauged by a single question world political history would be much more boring. That being said, asking a CEO to take responsibility for a mistake is a pretty good indicator. If they own the mistake. That's good. If they own the mistake and try to fix it. That's better. If they own the mistake and ask the people wronged how to make amends. They're probably not a CEO.

What does "take responsibility for a mistake" even mean when it comes to a CEO? Most recent examples of a CEO "taking responsibility" for mistakes that I can think of all involve them looking visibly sad on camera, sending an all-hands E-mail telling people how seriously they are taking things, and of course, laying off a bunch of lower-level employees. Occasionally, they also quit with a $XX million golden parachute…

> You can't just say the magic incantation "I take full responsibility" and leave it at that.

A decent rule of thumb is that if someone has to overtly say "I take full responsibility", they aren't taking full responsibility.

Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

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Hmm, my theory would be: don't look for the morally spotless ones, look for the ones with internal consistency, authenticity, and honesty. Everyone shits and everyone fucks, and in business, everyone cares about money (even if for different reasons). Yet when the time comes to discuss these things publicly, most suddenly become goody-goodies. So that's the first kind of lie. From there on out many other lies will fol…

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Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

#66

Some of these questions and their purported correct answers are really explaining a few of the odd interviews I've had in the last few years. I guess in addition to leetcode, one should grind on trolleycar dilemmas as well to get hired as a coder. :)

Nah.

If a company is using leetcode, I won't further consider being employed by that company. Same if I'm given any sort of weird psychological questions.

Not because companies are wrong in doing those things, but because they are a strong indicator of how the company operates in general, and that I would be a poor fit there.

Fortunately, most companies do neither of those things.

Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

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post #9

By what standard do you define morality?

I took the question as being about "moral trustworthiness" rather than about having any specific moral code. In my view, "moral trustworthiness" is having a moral code that you adhere to, regardless of what that code actually is. It's the opposite of "moral opportunist", or someone whose moral code changes according to what happens to be the most advantageous at the time.

But I could be overthinking this.

Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

#69
> What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to gauge their moral trustworthiness?

None, except to the extent that (there are other requirements, but these apply on top of them): (1) you already know what their honest answers would be, and (2) you can guarantee that they don't know that you know this.

Re: What questions can tech CEOs be asked, to guage their moral trustworthiness?

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post #67
post #9

By what standard do you define morality?

I took the question as being about "moral trustworthiness" rather than about having any specific moral code. In my view, "moral trustworthiness" is having a moral code that you adhere to, regardless of what that code actually is. It's the opposite of "moral opportunist", or someone whose moral code changes according to what happens to be the most advantageous at the time. But I could be overthinking this.

I mean, the nazi’s, Chinese communist party, and ISIS all have a moral code they adhere to.

I think, WHICH moral code you choose has some relevance here.

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