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Let's say that, hypothetically, I lead a project for a very big customer that ended up being used to commit a (arguably) crime against humanity. Should I put t

• blowski 4y ago
  I'm not sure why you'd be willing to work on such a project but then be concerned about putting it on a CV. Assuming something I don't understand, you could talk about the impact it had on your employer without going into details of what it allowed them to do.
  • lelanthran 4y ago
    > I'm not sure why you'd be willing to work on such a project but then be concerned about putting it on a CV. He just said: >> that ended up being used to commit a (arguably) crime against humanity. What about that makes you think that he knew what it would be used for? "I'm the civil engineer who designed a large and complicated factory for the mass baking of ceramic products." ... "I did not know the next government would start a world war and use them to gas Jews." You seem to assume that everyone has perfect foresight. I assure you, even you don't have perfect foresight.
    • blowski 4y ago
      Woah there Betsy, I wasn't accusing anyone of anything, I literally didn't understand the comment as well as you apparently did. So the second part of my comment stands. In the case of such a civil engineer, I'd focus on "Designed factory and rolled out process allowing organisation to achieve strategic objective to increase rate of baking ceramic products by 25%".
• scarface74 4y ago
  I’m not comparing this to a crime against humanity or making value judgments either way. But if someone told me that they were a senior SRE at MindGeek, I’m inclined to hire them.