A DBA I know very well was charged with modeling the accounts for an intentional illegal financial trick (in the 80s for Service Merchandise iirc) that would shift the proceeds from the trick into regular accounts after the statute of limitations ran out. The way it was explained to them was that if they were busted on it they would immediately apologize for the "oversight" and pay up. They did it because they enjoyed being employed.
Not just that, when the whole product is broken down into features, managed by Feature Managers (aka product manager), that is wrapped up in business speak, and there are whole hierarchies of [Engineering, Product, Project] managers, there are very few people, if any, who understand the whole thing and various side effects and so on.
So in end, in many cases people don’t even realize the nefarious nature of what they’re working on.
On top of that one is surrounded in the echo chamber of fellow employees all looking at the rising stock price and resulting bank balance.
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A DBA I know very well was charged with modeling the accounts for an intentional illegal financial trick (in the 80s for Service Merchandise iirc) that would shift the proceeds from the trick into regular accounts after the statute of limitations ran out. The way it was explained to them was that if they were busted on it they would immediately apologize for the "oversight" and pay up. They did it because they enjoyed being employed.
Not just that, when the whole product is broken down into features, managed by Feature Managers (aka product manager), that is wrapped up in business speak, and there are whole hierarchies of [Engineering, Product, Project] managers, there are very few people, if any, who understand the whole thing and various side effects and so on.
So in end, in many cases people don’t even realize the nefarious nature of what they’re working on.
On top of that one is surrounded in the echo chamber of fellow employees all looking at the rising stock price and resulting bank balance.