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Would be great to hear in general what the work environment was like, what the work itself was like, the holiday parties, etc. From previous AMAs for this and

Would be great to hear in general what the work environment was like, what the work itself was like, the holiday parties, etc. From previous AMAs for this and similar companies, the takeaway seems to always be: It's a lot more "normal" inside the company than people expect. Some specific questions: * When engineers and QE are doing their regular dev+testing work all day long, do they use actual videos from the site, or are there "tame" videos used for dev+test so as to not be so distracting? * Similar to above, how much of the day (like, how many hours) would a regular developer or tester be looking at the content? Do people become totally desensitized to it? Like, I know people say "it's just a regular job", but I have a hard time believing people aren't aroused by it, at least part of the time.

sorahn 6y ago
> It's a lot more "normal" inside the company than people expect. It was, just a tech company doing tech things. > or are there "tame" videos used for dev+test so as to not be so distracting? We had some public domain videos playing on a loop for internal testing environments, or some "screensaver" type videos. > Do people become totally desensitized to it? Yes, and relatively quickly too. The regular content was more looked at as a curiosity. "You found someone doing _what_?" "Let me see."
pluc 6y ago
> * When engineers and QE are doing their regular dev+testing work all day long, do they use actual videos from the site, or are there "tame" videos used for dev+test so as to not be so distracting? Real videos. People not wanting to work directly in contact with pornography is a huge problem to recruitment. > * Similar to above, how much of the day (like, how many hours) would a regular developer or tester be looking at the content? Do people become totally desensitized to it? Like, I know people say "it's just a regular job", but I have a hard time believing people aren't aroused by it, at least part of the time. Depends what you do, a regular developer probably doesn't look at a lot of porn except when testing their stuff in a near-prod setting. Some people watch porn all day (eg video editors) and there's a high turnover rate there. Oh, and the work environment was oddly corporate.

sorahn 6y ago

> It's a lot more "normal" inside the company than people expect. It was, just a tech company doing tech things. > or are there "tame" videos used for dev+test so as to not be so distracting? We had some public domain videos playing on a loop for internal testing environments, or some "screensaver" type videos. > Do people become totally desensitized to it? Yes, and relatively quickly too. The regular content was more looked at as a curiosity. "You found someone doing _what_?" "Let me see."

pluc 6y ago

> * When engineers and QE are doing their regular dev+testing work all day long, do they use actual videos from the site, or are there "tame" videos used for dev+test so as to not be so distracting? Real videos. People not wanting to work directly in contact with pornography is a huge problem to recruitment. > * Similar to above, how much of the day (like, how many hours) would a regular developer or tester be looking at the content? Do people become totally desensitized to it? Like, I know people say "it's just a regular job", but I have a hard time believing people aren't aroused by it, at least part of the time. Depends what you do, a regular developer probably doesn't look at a lot of porn except when testing their stuff in a near-prod setting. Some people watch porn all day (eg video editors) and there's a high turnover rate there. Oh, and the work environment was oddly corporate.