The most common job titles in most Silicon Valley companies are engineer and architect, not service manager or client relations. But unlike engineering in other sectors, tech companies do not have to perform safety tests to conform to any building codes before releasing their products. Instead, platforms are allowed to adopt dark pattern designs that deliberately mislead users into continual use and giving up more data. Tech engineers intentionally design confounding mazes on their platforms that keep people moving deeper and deeper into these architectures, without any clear exit.
