• (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    boog:
    oheso:
    Pecos Bill:
    "The decision was outside of my control and my recommendations against were not considered" sounds nice and indirect.
    Yes, but you're publicizing the fact that people ignore your recommendations. People see you as being ineffectual.

    Hard to find a win from this situation (I've been looking for a while).

    Just say "I wasn't involved in making that decision, but from what I understand my former employer's research indicated..." and regurgitate whatever blah blah bullshit blah...
    If the interviewer asks the right line of questions and doesn't dig too deep, you could probably get away with it...
    It doesn't matter how deep they dig if you can distance yourself from your former employer's bad decisions without sounding critical (or ineffectual).

    C-Octothorpe:
    ...but it still doesn't change the fact that you shouldn't be there if you can help it.
    Key words: "if you can help it".

    I went through it in my last job. I won't disturb you with the details because they would. But the important thing is that I protested one of our projects to no avail, watched in horror as my predictions came true, and had to support it when it finally reached production and was losing our client's data on a daily basis.

    As you say, I should have left before getting so deep. But the job market sucked at the time, so I wasn't able to land a job elsewhere until about 8 months later.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to WC
    WC:
    Did it 'flat out not work' or did they just not implement it correctly?

    Because if it didn't work, the smart card company should cover the dead cards.

    All smart cards are buggy to a lesser or greater degree, and if the vendor had to cover all the ones that get killed through fiendishly clever attacks like, oh, to pick a random example that isn't in any way related to what one global vendor's high-security JavaCards do, writing to a negative offset in an array, then they'd go bankrupt replacing all the bricked cards.

  • The Poop... of DOOM (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    boog (closet homo):
    C-Octothorpe:
    I was the dev lead...
    That's very unlikely.

    Perhaps unlikely my mentally disadvantaged dimwit, however it is (was) true.

    Dev lead... Yeah, I was that once, too. I was the ONLY dev in a company of 3 men (boss, designer and me). So by default, I was dev lead :P

  • paratus (unregistered)

    Holly shit, the style these articles are written in is so fucking hard to read. Simple sentences, dude - especially if you're not proof-reading them.

  • kahawe (unregistered)

    And the PIN just HAD to be 1 2 3 4 5!!!

  • (cs) in reply to Dirk
    Dirk:
    Odd narrative twist to describe the Head of Global Security in the second meeting. Was he invisible in the first? If he was, then there surely is more to this story.

    Captcha: "abbas"

    No, read the story again. In the first meeting, he appears as a meaty hand with five pink sausage-like fingers. Wait, no - that was just his hand. But it was the only bit about him that was described in that scene.

  • Reow (unregistered)

    I call bullshit on the majority of your story. No large company would be stupid enough to sign a contract that didn't state the technology to be implemented. The client wouldn't be able to "withhold payment" just because something better had come out in the meantime.

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