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"I see candidates who answer yes to whether they had worked on a blockchain or crypto projects being blacklisted." - If widespread this is the best sign of heal

"I see candidates who answer yes to whether they had worked on a blockchain or crypto projects being blacklisted." - If widespread this is the best sign of health for the tech industry I have seen in years

birracerveza 4y ago
Watch out what you cheer for, dangerwill. You do not want that to be the norm. It just so happens that, right now, they are discriminating towards something that you believe to be "wrong". What is "wrong" may change in the future or someone else's "wrong" may not align with your own. And considering we're talking about people's jobs and means to survive, it's not at all something to be taken lightly. At all. The applicant might not even have an interest in what they worked for, or might even opposed to it. Maybe they worked there just to survive and the pay was good. Has that ever happened to you? I know for a fact that I could not give a single fuck about few of the sectors I worked for, some of them I actively believe to be cancerous to society. I do not have the right to discard people based exclusively on their past work experience, as I'd discard myself. It just doesn't make sense from a moral standpoint, not to mention it also doesn't make sense from a competitive standpoint: I'd have a smaller pool of talent to choose from, and would discard brilliant minds simply by association to something I do not agree with (or simply don't understand) and ... for what, exactly? To make a point?
- dangerwill 4y ago
  There is a difference between industries that are cancerous to society (of which there are many and very few of us have clean hands at this standard) and open, obvious scams. Scams where the software IS the scam and so the software developers involved are culpable. If someone put on their resume that they had previously been employed writing malware then I think it is quite fair to blacklist them too. I get the overall point you are making, but it is just a rehash of the free speech absolutist position which, in my opinion (that you will not change), inevitably and continuously attempts to shield the worst abusers of society. And if it turns out that I end up working on something horrible and don't get out immediately and scrub it off my resume? Then I deserve to take reputational damage
  - birracerveza 4y ago
    You have decided that ALL blockchain technology is a scam and everyone involved with it is culpable enough to be blacklisted from the industry with a zero tolerance policy. Do you believe that to be a reasonable position to have?

birracerveza 4y ago

Watch out what you cheer for, dangerwill. You do not want that to be the norm. It just so happens that, right now, they are discriminating towards something that you believe to be "wrong". What is "wrong" may change in the future or someone else's "wrong" may not align with your own. And considering we're talking about people's jobs and means to survive, it's not at all something to be taken lightly. At all. The applicant might not even have an interest in what they worked for, or might even opposed to it. Maybe they worked there just to survive and the pay was good. Has that ever happened to you? I know for a fact that I could not give a single fuck about few of the sectors I worked for, some of them I actively believe to be cancerous to society. I do not have the right to discard people based exclusively on their past work experience, as I'd discard myself. It just doesn't make sense from a moral standpoint, not to mention it also doesn't make sense from a competitive standpoint: I'd have a smaller pool of talent to choose from, and would discard brilliant minds simply by association to something I do not agree with (or simply don't understand) and ... for what, exactly? To make a point?

dangerwill 4y ago
There is a difference between industries that are cancerous to society (of which there are many and very few of us have clean hands at this standard) and open, obvious scams. Scams where the software IS the scam and so the software developers involved are culpable. If someone put on their resume that they had previously been employed writing malware then I think it is quite fair to blacklist them too. I get the overall point you are making, but it is just a rehash of the free speech absolutist position which, in my opinion (that you will not change), inevitably and continuously attempts to shield the worst abusers of society. And if it turns out that I end up working on something horrible and don't get out immediately and scrub it off my resume? Then I deserve to take reputational damage
- birracerveza 4y ago
  You have decided that ALL blockchain technology is a scam and everyone involved with it is culpable enough to be blacklisted from the industry with a zero tolerance policy. Do you believe that to be a reasonable position to have?