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I'm a programmer. The company I'm working for is not doing well, and so I'm going to start sending out resumes. One of my former co-workers jumped ship a few weeks ago and got a job as a programmer for a pornographic website; he tells me the pay is good (about 10% more than I'm currently making) and that he'll put in a good word for me. I'm assuming that working as a programmer for a pornographic website will be pretty much the same as working as a programmer for a non-pornographic website. My primary concern is the impact that this will have on my resume when I eventually switch jobs - where on the continuum of "it be a big red flag and I'll only be able to work for pornographic websites from then on" to "it'll be no big deal" would this fall? loinburger fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 05:14
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Don't shake hands with other people in the office.
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Oct 10, 2014 09:59
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Convincing a new employer that you aren't creepy might be a hard sell. Having it on your resume could blow a job offer for you.
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Oct 10, 2014 14:17
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Unless the company is "AAA SuperDicks R US" would it be such an issue to say "programming optimization in video compression for XYZ company"? Or just use a parent company's name say worked for subsidiary of doing XYZ?
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Oct 10, 2014 16:39
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Check Darkpriests thread in Ask/Tell and ask him, he knows the people in the business and how they transition in and out of it.
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Oct 10, 2014 17:08
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Thanks, I'll do that
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Oct 10, 2014 17:57
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Convincing a new employer that you aren't creepy might be a hard sell. Having it on your resume could blow a job offer for you. I don't think you need to get into the details of what you're serving up on the resume. Like, I'm assuming that the company probably has a normal-sounding business name and I can't imagine being a programmer involves a lot of handling of the content.
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Oct 11, 2014 04:43
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:I don't think you need to get into the details of what you're serving up on the resume. Like, I'm assuming that the company probably has a normal-sounding business name and I can't imagine being a programmer involves a lot of handling of the content. I just think he might be coming to this decision prematurely. You really need to consider if you're edging yourself closer to being unemployable.
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Oct 11, 2014 06:38
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Claverjoe posted:Unless the company is "AAA SuperDicks R US" would it be such an issue to say "programming optimization in video compression for XYZ company"? Or just use a parent company's name say worked for subsidiary of doing XYZ? Yeah, this. Most porn companies are subsidiaries of media corporations. Hustler for example is published by LFP, Inc., which is not a well-known name.
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Oct 12, 2014 23:37
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Having it on your resume could blow a job offer for you.
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Oct 13, 2014 17:25
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enraged_camel posted:Yeah, this. Most porn companies are subsidiaries of media corporations. Hustler for example is published by LFP, Inc., which is not a well-known name. 5 Seconds of googling leads me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt_Publications. With prospective employers now going through prospective employees' Facebook, Twitter and anything else they can find, I find it doubtful they wouldn't go to the trouble of googling a previous employer. How bad of a career move this is I do not know but don't count on being able to keep a potential employer from finding out, unless you intend on leaving the time blank on your resume. Maybe even then.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:19
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Griefor posted:5 Seconds of googling leads me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt_Publications. With prospective employers now going through prospective employees' Facebook, Twitter and anything else they can find, I find it doubtful they wouldn't go to the trouble of googling a previous employer. Not to mention, if you aren't careful during the interview you might just ejaculate something that would tip them off. Sometimes it starts with just a tip, but you never know how much they might find out if they are persistent.
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Oct 15, 2014 03:27
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There's no rule that says you need to name the company on your resume. In fact, you may want to exclude the name anyway if it might imply something about you that could be taken the wrong way. It's totally unfair, but everybody has biases and some people choose to minimize the items in their resume that people could make unfair generalizations about. People rely on their biases when they are given a stack of 300 resumes and need to turn that into 10 phone calls for interviews. If you worked at a church camp, you could instead describe the characteristics as it's relevant to the experience. "Youth summer camp", "supervisor of 15 camp recreation staff with a total volume of 8,000 youth during the summer" rather than "Baptist Bible No Catholics Allowed Super Summer Adventure Camp, Backwater Township, LA". Maybe they saw Jesus Camp on netflix and are getting the wrong idea? On the other side, maybe you did marketing for a tobacco company and you're looking for a job in health care and want to obscure it a little bit. For your programmer job at a porn site, you can instead list whatever metrics are meaningful in your industry. "Programmer responsible for XYZwhateve entertainment/media website averaging #X unique daily visitors" and some key accomplishments.
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Oct 15, 2014 21:25
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Incorporate yourself as a contractor and use your own company name. You're under no obligation to divulge client names.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:36
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It also depends on where you're looking for work. If this is for kink.com in San Francisco or something, and you're okay working for smaller startups afterwards, I can't imagine you'd have trouble putting it on your resume as long as the work you do is clearly related to programming. On the other hand, if you plan on working in, I don't know, Alabama anytime soon, you may want to reconsider.
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Oct 18, 2014 21:33
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Griefor posted:5 Seconds of googling leads me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt_Publications. With prospective employers now going through prospective employees' Facebook, Twitter and anything else they can find, I find it doubtful they wouldn't go to the trouble of googling a previous employer. I think that's overblown a bit if you're not talking about lovely/really entry-level jobs.
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Oct 19, 2014 03:03
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It's not a job killer. I have a friend who used to do IT for a porn company and he's had no problem getting jobs at non-porn companies since then. He just puts the parent company on his resume for the job. I don't know what he says in interviews, but programming is pretty much the same wherever you go. If you get asked what kind of company it is, just say it's an entertainment business. Although if you do take the job, be prepared to be hazed with some bizarre poo poo.
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Oct 22, 2014 02:01
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