I currently am a programmer who wants to find a job is aligned with tech privacy. I see a few companies post on this forum, but I don’t want to bother their PR team here as this isn’t a job posting board.
With that, how do you all evaluate if a general tech company is a privacy advocate?
For starters, what do you actually want yourself? You should go look at the All Tech is Human Job Board.
You could also work in public interest technology and take a paycut to work at various nonprofit organizations or government.
Another option is to work for a company that provides services that are not consumer-facing. A software development at a cybersecurity or marketing B2B firm won’t always be opposed to your beliefs.
One notable exception is Palantir though 
Not sure there are many privacy-focused companies in itself.
I guess that you can always lurk when it comes down to Proton, Nexctloud, Tuta etc. 
But in itself, if you are beyond a family-sized company it might be hard to have them care about Privacy.
I guess that if you truly want to work for such a value, the best way to go is to create something yourself. 
But you can also work for some non-invasive non-dopamine filling company and potentially push-back on hostile practices haha.
TLDR: having a job and having it respecting privacy might be a hard Venn diagram to fit in, consider having a 9-5 that pays the bills only. 
Moreover, I don’t think that people might feel like you’re bothering them: quite the opposite if they could use some of yours skills.
Whether they can accomodate my workflow or not.