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As someone who has had to do it: even in a supposed talent shortage, really fucking hard. Even in the rare instances I could get an interview I probably sounde
by vonmoltke 12y ago
As someone who has had to do it: even in a supposed talent shortage, really fucking hard. Even in the rare instances I could get an interview I probably sounded like an idiot giving generic and slightly evasive answers.
- jonknee 12y agoTo be honest I'd be leery of hiring a former intelligence agent regardless of technical ability. I'm sure if they wanted to plant someone it wouldn't be someone with NSA on his/her resume, but the thought would be hard to shake.
- vonmoltke 12y agoInteresting perspective. For the record, I was doing radar signal processing for a contractor for the Navy. While there I bumped into plenty of people who were in the Order of Secret Squirrels, and got the definite impression that once you join you never really leave.
- jonlucc 12y agoThanks for the response. Did it end up working for you? Does it rely on getting a hiring manager who is willing to take a chance on you?
- vonmoltke 12y agoWell, I'm not completely out, just at a contractor that does predominantly unclassified work. It was a combination of finding someone to take a chance on me and the classification of my last program easing. When I started, "I do stuff" was about the extent of what I was allowed to say. When I left the name and nature of the program had been declassified so I could at least talk about some concepts in detail, though still not specific problems. I ended up in NLP, which is similar enough to signal processing that the company was willing to roll the dice. I did have to take a pay cut, though.