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Yes, this. Can't imagine how many very talented people I know have gone into helping crypto scams.
by senttoschool 4y ago
Yes, this. Can't imagine how many very talented people I know have gone into helping crypto scams.
- pavlov 4y agoWhen evaluating engineering candidates, a résumé showing time spent in crypto in excess of six months is going to be a giant red flag and default no-hire for me.
- n42 4y agoThis is short sighted and I will happily hire the talent you are missing out on
- ThalesX 4y agoI find myself working in the web3 space despite not being a fan of crypto (quite the contrary). What I have helped implement working in this space touches on distributed & decentralized systems, edge computing, cryptography and I could probably name a few more technically interesting areas. Actually made use of those trees, graphs and associated algorithms that you see popping up in coding interviews, after which you never hear about them again. While I respect your decision, if we are talking about technical exposure to interesting challenges, I think you're leaving a lot on the table by defaulting to no-hire.
- bergenty 4y agoThat makes absolutely no sense. If you want to take a stand on idealism at least say so in your post.
- pavlov 4y agoIt’s probably not a culture fit if someone happily worked on products whose only purpose and outcome was to rip off users. Six months is enough time to figure that out and find other employment.
- johnsimer 4y agoThere’s a lot of cool infra that am engineer could have worked on, that by no means would mean they were complicit in or approving of scams: e.g polygon, starknet, testing infrastructure for the merge etc
- davidgerard 4y agoI must break it to you that "blockchain" is a red flag in multiple ways.
- osigurdson 4y agoWhy? The technology is fairly interesting I think. It doesn't mean that they are evil.