The company does have honest employees, including designers and engineers (I know a few personally).
Yes, it can be argued, "It's their fault for working at an evil company in the first place", but it's tough for me to see the 'regular folk' suffer as well :(
By "suffer" do you mean "not make millions from their stock options"?
A lot of these regular people have quite good job prospects in other companies, perhaps even at a greater salary, but (I presume) chose Zynga because of the stock options.
Zynga is like a slot machine company -- bad business practices, and the product is not actually fun. If "regular people" invested in slot machines and that investment didn't work out, would you still call it "suffering"?
I say: let it fall apart, and get these engineers working on real problems.
What if your company was acquired by them and you're in vesting period? Are engineers of the acquired company guilty of a career move that they had nothing to do with?
Look how well that worked out for OMGPOPs CEO who came out in public making horrible statements of some of his employees.
He deserved to be acquired by Pinchs and it showed his true colors.
The day OMGPOP was acquired, I deleted draw something.
I've played games my whole life, computer games are what got me into computers as my career, but I have never played a Zynga game and never will.
I boycott everything the company does as a personal preference.
I don't think all the employees are bad, but anyone who is blatantly working to do Pincus' theft of others' work certainly KNOW they are doing it and that's pretty shitty.
Yes, it can be argued, "It's their fault for working at an evil company in the first place", but it's tough for me to see the 'regular folk' suffer as well :(