The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
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The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
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Re: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
#2Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
Re: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
#3Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -Upton Sinclair
Re: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
#4Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
You could be working on the auction side (where ads bid to be served to that particular user profile), or a bunch of other infrastructure stuff.
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#5Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
and how do you work fulltime for a company and not bother to figure out what they do?
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#6Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
I find it difficult to understand how you would even interview & accept a job without understanding what the company did.
Re: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
#7Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
Because he was not. Maybe he was working on a backend, or on a UI, or on testing, or on automation, or sysdmin, or 100 of other places.
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#8I went to a meetup that they hosted once, and it was pretty obvious that they were up to something, but they did have a really cool office.
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#9Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
Microservices!
I went for an interview at a startup, where the very charismatic CEO explained how their wonderful product helped website owners optimise their content based on their user's profiles. He forgot to mention that those profiles were built using all sorts of illegal and TOS-breaking practices to build display ads for gambling sites. I only found this out by accident, months after the (failed) interview, when talking about them with somebody at a meetup.
So I guess it's possible if the business has a specific strategy for doing it.
Re: The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
#10Maybe I just forget what it's like to be a beginner, but how on earth do you work on Ad Injection software and not realize that you're working on Ad Injection?!
Because you would only realize if you were actually writing the extensions, which only takes one or two person to do because all they do is inject a javascript file into each page.