Communication Manager Oleksandr Kovalenko on how to communicate on LinkedIn about NDAs, talk about experience and success. Here’s what IT professionals answered him.
Communication Manager Oleksandr Kovalenko on how to communicate on LinkedIn about NDAs, talk about experience and success. Here’s what IT professionals answered him.
In general, IT professionals believe that projects under NDA are usually in the field of gambling or betting, or military. However, this is not always the case.
Anton Kosenko, Junior Python Developer, called NDAs conspiracy theories where reptilians rule. «And if we’re on the subject, the activities of some organizations/people require anonymity. This is not always some kind of black business, although perhaps most of it is. Regarding what to write on Linkedin: it depends on what you are allowed to say. I think that if you describe your activities in general terms, then this does not fall under NDA,» the developer notes.
«There are such fines in salaries even now that you want to agree to an NDA. But unfortunately, this filters out a certain part of the market. And the project is not always bad — it’s a question of security and reputation,» says QA Engineer Anastasia Dikalova. The tester wrote that she was called for interviews despite her NDA status, where she tells how things got better after she came, and what she fixed. «I don’t understand how the name of the company will help check what is confidential? You can share the phone number of the gasket company so that they confirm the activity. But insisting on the client himself to disclose and demanding this is, in my opinion, a cringe,» adds Anastasia.
«I say I worked in porn, I make a long dramatic pause and then I say I’m a programmer,» jokes web dev Stepan Orda .
1C/BAS platform expert Dmitry Kinash writes that he has seen NDAs not only from technical specialists, but even from recruiters, and, according to him, it always looks very funny. «I mean, I have experience, but I can’t provide references, take my word for it,» he explains. According to Dmitry:
«In both cases, if you don’t write a word about the actual NDA, nothing will change. In the extreme case, if it’s about unwillingness to show a „pause in experience,“ you can write that you tried your own IT business (you can immediately write down project and product skills), but didn’t calculate the finances and are returning to hiring,» adds Dmytro.
Senior Python Developer at SoftServe Oleksandr Viter believes that when it comes to programmers, you can always tell about the technologies they worked with. «No matter what super-mega-powerful NDA there is, even if you developed software for US nuclear weapons and collaborated with the Pentagon, you can always tell what programming languages were used and how many years of experience they have with these languages. Like ‘wrote software in C++ and Java for 5 years in the miltech field’,» he adds.
Sometimes such experience adds advantages. For example, cybersecurity engineer Yevheniy Karpyuk writes from his own experience as an Information Security specialist who worked at Red Team that it is easier for such specialists to find work later than for any other type of specialist.
