I was employed all seven years it took for my felony charges to fall off a typical background examination by employers such as Apple. I've spoken about it on HN

I was employed all seven years it took for my felony charges to fall off a typical background examination by employers such as Apple. I've spoken about it on HN before. If you're talking about minimum wage or trades, yeah, a felony makes things practically impossible, but in our industry it's overlooked by many companies. Notable exceptions are Google (who fired me when their legal team "caught up" to new hires over two months after I joined, even though I disclosed it), Facebook and LinkedIn, in my experience. Harder, sure. Impossible? Not even remotely. Just more pressure to be good at what you do.