[pavlov]

Black mark is exactly right. I wouldn’t hire someone who spent more than a couple of months at a crypto job — that’s enough time to realize what’s going on and get out. If they stayed longer, it invites the question of whether they’re gullible, incompetent, pathologically greedy, or too good at compartmentalizing.

Do you think “I was an accountant at Enron” is considered positive career experience in that field? Crypto is the equivalent in software engineering.

[rojeee]

Are you actually responsible for hiring people? If so, it's quite a narrow-minded and borderline silly take on things. I've been hiring people for the last 8 or so years and if I come across a good engineer, I really don't care what industry they worked in, as long as they are capable, motived and a pleasure to work with.

I think crypto is mostly pointless but I've been working in and out of the sector for nearly 10 years. Why?

1. I have a family to look after and it pays quite well.

2. I get to work on technology which is very interesting and applicable to other domains - consensus alogirithms, security in a highly adversarial environment, peer to peer networking and associated networking alogirthms, the intersection of finance and technology, the intersection of economics and technology.

3. I get to use tools and langauges I enjoy working with.

4. I work with smart, interesting people from a variety of backgrounds.

5. The industry moves fast, so there's always something new to learn.

I get constant inbound from recruiters and no-one cares that I work in crpyto.

[geewee]

I'm responsible for giving hiring input and I've talked to multiple people who are solely responsible, and working in crypto isn't necessarily a dealbreaker, but for me and those people you're definitely competing at a disadvantage from the outset.

[rojeee]

Fair enough. I believe that's commonly called discrimination.

[dtech]

Which industry you've worked in is not a protected class, you can discriminate all you want.

[MrMan]

haha good one. it is, but in a good way.