[eslachance]

I've worked for Mindgeek in the past (left 2 years ago) and still had friends working there. Many dozens of employees were locked out of their accounts this morning, none of them knowing what the hell was going on. A personal friend of mind had to wait until 2pm to get a call from HR finally telling him the news, even though it had been so long that the media were already aware of the fact.

I still remember when Feras was on stage at a town hall meeting 2ish years ago telling us that the company wasn't going to do any RRSP matches to the employees because we were "too young to think about retirement", all the while driving around his bright yellow Porsche Cayenne and getting his 19 million dollar mansion built.

Considering they were still reeling from Visa and MC cutting off their service and having to rely on cryptocurrency for payment, it's no surprise to me that now that crypto is failing hard, the value of those payments is vastly reduced and so is, probably, existing cash that was still in the crypto space.

[cuttysnark]

I have to know—are videos/content in the dev environment... placeholders? Or are features and other dev work done with actual porn videos? I realize sometimes one might need get the latest from prod for whatever reason, but surely day-to-day dev work isn't done with videos that—distracting?

[eslachance]

In the dev environment we had custom videos uploaded, and I often uploaded my own. Nice kittens and puppy videos and such. Still, the mindgeek office life was mostly the same as any office, except for the porn on half the screens.

As with anything else at one point you get desensitized by the same content, since it was all test data and not live production stuff, it didn't get updated often.

[hnthrowaway0315]

Yeah I know about that RRSP line too. RRSP matching was one of the hottest ask at the time but they just brushed it off quickly. The salary was also shitty comparing to others.

[terrycody]

Does the 2 years ago lawsuit caused havoc to the Pornhub website? I heard 10 million videos got deleted, so I guess the website traffic must be dropped a ton, isn't it?