[souprock]

It isn't secret, but notice how many words it takes to explain things. That becomes half the job post and looks ridiculous. If I don't go into that long-winded explanation, and maybe even if I do, people are going to make some very wrong assumptions about the company. This is a mid-sized company of about 400 people, not really public-facing, purposely without a web site. Searching for us on the internet mostly provides nonsense.

I hope that the technical aspects of the jobs are what people care about. I find it weird/suspicious if the name matters, given that it is common in the USA to have multiple distinct companies with distinct benefits and culture all operating under one brand.

[prophetjohn]

A lot of people do care about more than just the technical aspects of the job, like what the company does. When that's intentionally obfuscated and the all the locations are government-y towns, then one is left to make assumptions — like that they'd be building software that spies on their fellow citizens or helps bomb people in faraway countries. Many people would be turned off by contributing to software like that even if the technical challenges are interesting.

And I didn't even say it was suspicious that the name was omitted in the job post. I said it was suspicious that when someone asked and someone else answered, apparently incorrectly, you got defensive but still didn't issue a correction. It's weird.

[souprock]

They were correct, in an informal way. I clarified that, though evidently not well. (C is for Cyber, S is for Solutions, I is for Inc.)

The only comments ever posted by philibuster are in response to me. It's sort of a stalking thing, which should explain my irritation. Because the company lacks a web or other consumer presence, very little information can be easily found from the name. What little is out there is absurdly wrong.

When I think of "building software that spies on their fellow citizens", the first thing that pops into mind is all of San Francisco and Silicon Valley. That is the entire business model of that area, and of most of the jobs being posted here.