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Working for a crypto startup can be a negative on your resume/CV as well.
by jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
Working for a crypto startup can be a negative on your resume/CV as well.
- phone8675309 5y agoI would not hire anybody with a crypto startup on their resume.
- twox2 5y agoYou might be surprised to learn that most of these people have no interest in working for you either.
- phone8675309 5y agoGood, looks like our interests align, so there should be no problem then.
- trophycase 5y agoFormer newspaper exec probably: "I would never hire someone who started out writing a blog"
- galaxyLogic 5y agoI would never join a club that allowed people like as its members - Groucho
- phone8675309 5y agoI don’t think that’s quite equivalent unless all bloggers are somehow furthering a scam whereby they make the currently ultra-wealthy more ultra-wealthy at the expense of late-comers while also fueling the destruction of the environment through the intentional wasting of resources (proof of work).
- ditonal 5y agoIn the Hacker News bubble, working for anywhere is a negative on your CV. Amazon treats its warehouse employees badly, Google creates a surveillance state and bows to authoritarians, Facebook drives engagement with hate/dissent, AirBnB is causing a housing crisis by turning long term rentals into short term rentals, Apple has Chinese sweatshops, Netflix and Spotify run controversial content, Uber/Doordash/Lyft/Instacart exploit gig workers, etc. In reality, practically nobody cares and most employers are more than happy to hire experienced engineers who happened to work at some employers who did sketchy things. But, if we're going to drill down into the ethics of crypto startups, I think they come out looking pretty good in comparison. It's worth noting that the author of this post works at Hubspot which literally had an entire book written about how its workplace culture was highly discriminatory, particularly against older workers.("Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble ") Engineers in glass houses....
- detaro 5y agoThe "hackernews bubble" is full of people literally working at all these companies, so I very much doubt that's in any way an accurate representation of the average communities opinions.
- KarlKemp 5y agoI’m basically a Stalinist relative to the community here, but among those listed, only Uber and Facebook would fall into don’t-work-for-them-territory. The others are regularly criticised to varying degrees, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to work there for people somewhat conscious of their conscience. It comes down to the question “can you honestly expect to have an impact on the organisation, or is it more likely to hollow you out and make you into another one of their cynical libertarian defenders?” This happens to be exactly the same misunderstanding as calling all criticism “cancel culture”.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoPeople reacted to this pretty strongly so I'll elaborate what I mean. I have multiple friends that have worked for major bitcoin/eth companies. You definitely know the names of these companies. My friends found themselves in exactly the situation I describe. Neither of them were "true believers" in the advocate sense. They just thought the technology was interesting, the team was good, etc. But the problem is the loudest advocates in the crypto space are frankly, so insane, that even a vague signal you might be part of that group is a huge red flag for any business that is not all in on crypto. Hiring one of these people could be incredibly destructive to a team.