You’re not obligated to put every company you ever worked for in your CV anyway. Maybe some will then ask about the “gaps” in your CV. But whatever.
Plenty of jobs are posted on HN as “Stealth startup”, can’t we also do that on resumes?
Ask HN: Does having a betting/gambling company in your CV hurt your career?
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#43I do hiring in the public health IT sector of a big european country, and this would lead to some tough questions.
Just as a counterpoint. The previous CTO of the UK NHSx division spent many years working for a major UK retail and online sports betting company.
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#44You’re not obligated to put every company you ever worked for in your CV anyway. Maybe some will then ask about the “gaps” in your CV. But whatever.
Plenty of jobs are posted on HN as “Stealth startup”, can’t we also do that on resumes?
that's relatively common for former freelancers and consultants. eg: "some project, client confidential. did such and such..."
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of jobs are posted on HN as “Stealth startup”, can’t we also do that on resumes?
that's relatively common for former freelancers and consultants. eg: "some project, client confidential. did such and such..."
For example:
Undisclosed employer. July 2024 - present day
Worked on the backend for a popular online service. Work included programming in PHP and working MariaDB. Solved scalability challenges and optimized backend response times.
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#46I'm going to try and keep this as dispassionate as possible. I did a project with a UK gambling company. I have tried to do everything in my power to expunge it from my work history as well as, more importantly, my moral history. If you need the money, need the money, then it's up to you. But it is an industry that preys on the vulnerable.
> it is an industry that preys on the vulnerable
It is. It’s like working for organised drug dealers. Or for a cryptocurrency. Hoping dumb suckers will waste their money by making poor choices.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's kind of interesting how i have started to look differently at ex-FAANG employees compared to how I used to view them only like 3 years ago. For me, it's less about someone's morals because look, if you're going to get paid 500k--there are very few people in the world that wouldn't take that. It's more about the fact that after reading Blind, the culture behind FAANG just turns me off so much. The optimizing your…
I’ve interviewed once with Google, didn’t make it so take that grain of salt in my comment: Every time I’ve met with ex-FAANG types in the last decade (and I’ve got dozens of anecdotes) I felt like I was talking with a Wolf of Wallstreet bro stereotype. Complete lack of humility / big ego. The big name and big money attracts a certain personality type. I realize full well this is broad strokes and not all are bad, bu…
Someone recently joined my team (mid size SaaS) from a FAANG, and the couple times I asked about their time at said FAANG they quickly steered the conversation elsewhere. I took the hint.
I get the sense that they would mostly rather forget the experience.