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I have security clearance. This required an interview. “What forums do you regularly participate in?” After a raised eyebrow, I had to explain in some detail
by jen729w 9y ago
I have security clearance. This required an interview.
“What forums do you regularly participate in?”
After a raised eyebrow, I had to explain in some detail the meaning of the word ‘hacker’...
- leoc 9y agoNote to self: in similar situations, avoid entering a digression about how the treatment of pg's friend RTM was totally unfair.
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- jwilk 9y agoIf you don't know who RTM is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
- BartBoch 9y ago"Ycombinator forum" would be good enough I suppose.
- coldtea 9y agoUnless it's some government gig, run, don't walk from that job.
- true_religion 9y agoI wouldn't expect someone to immediately know about the existence of Hacker News, nor immediately assume "oh they're the good kind of hackers, for sure" when I am sitting in a security clearance interview. Not knowing these things doesn't make someone incompetent or terrible people---it just means they don't run in the same circles that I do (to note, plenty of good people at Microsoft have never heard of HN, but are still nice enough to work with).
- coldtea 9y ago>I wouldn't expect someone to immediately know about the existence of Hacker News, nor immediately assume "oh they're the good kind of hackers, for sure" when I am sitting in a security clearance interview. It's the tracking and asking you about what you visited part, not the "not knowing about HN" part
- jwilk 9y agoWhy special case government? Just run.
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