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Anti-authoritarian can lead to difficulties in coordination with other teams. I'm not saying it has to, but it can.
Not doing something unethical from a moral standpoint makes you a good person, but not necessarily a good employee. But in the vast majority of cases engineers aren't presented with morally dubious tasks.
Not doing what you're told because you think you know better is also anti-authoritarian, and definitely would be considered a bad trait to have for an employee.
You have a legal obligation to refuse to do something unethical, so it depends whose definition of "good" you're looking at, the HR dep, or the engineering one.
Not doing what you're told because you think you know better still sounds better than blindly doing what you're told. Employees following instructions they don't understand, when talking about desk jobs, kills any motivation. Let them offer alternatives, and argue a bit. There's a difference between disagreeing and misunderstanding, and I bet the anti authoritarian crowd is more bothered by the latter than the former