> It's less of a problem if ... you're doing something more applied/normal, like software development, where you can just have a conversation or work some problems to demonstrate ability
My experience trying to get a job with highly-classified non-intel software experience (distributed real-time, to boot) is that this is still extremely difficult. The conversation couldn't include anything really interesting. Hell, my resume couldn't contain anything really interesting so I rarely got the conversation in the first place.
I have been gone for 3.5 years, but I still have that problem because the work I did then is what I want to do, and the work I'm doing now (Java-based NLP) was the escape. I can only given detailed information about what I do now, though, which skews everyone into thinking I'm a Java or ML developer. :/
This is one concrete way that something like Intelexit could actually make a difference -- find companies who are willing to hire people with intel backgrounds.
My experience trying to get a job with highly-classified non-intel software experience (distributed real-time, to boot) is that this is still extremely difficult. The conversation couldn't include anything really interesting. Hell, my resume couldn't contain anything really interesting so I rarely got the conversation in the first place.
I have been gone for 3.5 years, but I still have that problem because the work I did then is what I want to do, and the work I'm doing now (Java-based NLP) was the escape. I can only given detailed information about what I do now, though, which skews everyone into thinking I'm a Java or ML developer. :/