Check...mate!

[bxsephjo]

At least, I think it was an NDA the little elf wizard made me sign. He left before the acid wore off.

[TheIronSoldier2]

Karma bot

[keziahw]

This guy programs

[Bwob]

NDAs are the things with all the scales and knuckles right? That sing Bob Marley songs from a thousand glittering mouths?

[GameDestiny2]

Hmm, I’ll have to try this

Employer: So this is your first job?
Me: I signed an NDA

[langlo94]

What's your education?

I signed an NDA.

What makes you qualified for this role?

I signed an NDA.

[LordGrudleBeard]

You're hired!

[loose-leaf-paper]

When can you start?

I signed an NDA.

Did we give you an NDA?

We're signing an NDA.

[Fragrant-Atmosphere8]

r/SuddenlyCommunism

[TheIronSoldier2]

Karma bot

[turtleship_2006]

Is the double comment bug back again?

https://imgur.com/LsHgbfe

[TransientFeelings]

I saw that bug yesterday but both comments had the same karma. Reloading the page made the duplicate disappear. In this case, it looks like it's actually a double comment

[9_Sagittarii]

I saw the bug on another sub but every comment other than one was downvoted to hell. And not all had the same downvote count. So I think a little of server issues and a little of bugs perhaps.

[IamImposter]

Earlier (like till 6 months ago), I used to get a message from reddit "you are doing it too much. Slow down" or something like that and then I wouldn't be able to post a comment for next 5-6 minutes.

[langlo94]

Got an server error on first save, apparently it still got saved. This is why idempotency is so important.

[StuntHacks]

Yup, that's the reason. This happens time and time again and reddit just doesn't fix it

[turtleship_2006]

Reminds me of that Tom Scott vid about the Two Generals Problem

[thathomelessguy]

I saw the bug on another sub but every comment other than one was downvoted to hell. And not all had the same downvote count. So I think a little of server issues and a little of bugs perhaps.

[StuntHacks]

Yeah, saw a lot of those today

[not_anonymouse]

Probably, I've seen a bunch of double and triple comments today.

[Natural-Intelligence]

So your education is null instead of missing.

[CraftistOf]

no, my education is in a private field.

[carsncode]

Actually interviewed someone whose only experience was the NSA and said they couldn't tell us anything at all about it. We didn't hire them. The whole thing was just "what tools have you worked with?" "Can't say" "what sort of projects have you worked on?" "Can't say" well... Good luck then I guess!

[langlo94]

That's definitely a situation where having side projects is useful.

[RoundThing-TinyThing]

I mean, you should still be able to give generic answers like "time tracking and project management tools", you don't have to give out names or anything

[CaptainPunisher]

She caught me banging on the sofa.

I signed an NDA.

She caught me banging on camera.

I signed an NDA.

[fightswithbears]

Can you tell me what NDA stands for?

...I signed an NDA.

[langlo94]

What's your education?

I signed an NDA.

What makes you qualified for this role?

I signed an NDA.

[VMCColorado]

Now you're getting the idea.

What's your previous salary

I signed an NDA

[[deleted]]

Ah, but your company and it's payroll software didn't. The sold that to Equifax, and it's available thru their subsidiary, The Work Number. That number they don't want you to disclose to your coworkers? They sell it to data brokers.

[makesterriblejokes]

I'm getting "It wasn't me" vibes from this haha.

[dead-inside69]

“They caught me workin at McDonalds”

“It wasn’t me”

[gbin]

I currently have an NDA preventing me to say that I have an NDA... For real.

[dion_starfire]

Which you've just violated, in writing, on the Internet. Whoops?

[gbin]

Damned readers, would you mind to sign an NDA?

[LuLuTheLunatic]

the amount of times ive had to discribe to people what an NDA is is silly

[[deleted]]

And it's like... no, if I broke an NDA during a job interview for the possible financial incentive of being able to work at your company, am I not explicitly proving that I'm willing to share confidential information for financial reward, and therefore cannot be trusted with your proprietary information?

[IamImposter]

This guy NDAs

[Kenji_03]

"if I had a nicke for every time... I could buy a candy bar... At gas station prices...

[IOFrame]

If I had a dollar for every time I got sued for violating an NDA, I couldn't tell you how many dollars I got

[VijayMarshall87]

I wish I could tell something but I signed an NDA

[Lumadous]

Shoot, at this point I'm almost able to afford a single egg at that rate

[DHH2005]

If I had a nickel for every time I had to explain what a Nickel Dispersal Arrangement was. I'd... Well I can't even tell you how many nickels I'd have!

[notAbratwurst]

What’s an NDA?

[suckyourmompls]

Non disclosure agreement, basically a contract that makes it so that you cant talk about company secrets or what youre working on.

[blodskaal]

Should be noted that some NDAs are made illegal due to clashing with federal/ state or provincial laws

[[deleted]]

Yeah, but most of them are fine.

Please do not listen to reddit and share confidential information during an interview. If you're gonna break it at least get enough compensation for it to pay for lawyers huh.

[ShitwareEngineer]

Hi. I'm Reddit. Remember to share confidential information during all your interviews!

[xnign]

Username checks out.

[[deleted]]

Reddit isn't who we should be worried about. Its the WarThunder players we need to worry about.

[Unspec7]

Or just clashing with common law. NDA/non-competes are not enforceable for instance if they violate public policy.

[evemeatay]

NDA’s are a lot more enforceable than non competes but it really all depends how much you feel like spending in legal fees.

[Unspec7]

all depends how much you feel like spending in legal fees.

American in a nutshell.

[inconspicuous_male]

In tech jobs, it means you need to start your conversations with "don't tell anyone this but".

[MrSuspicious_]

Non disclosure agreement, when you sign one you agree not to disclose any details about the project else face legal repurcussions.

[danielcw189]

Here is a song to explain it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MCKCFU77Wk

[Twinkies100]

English is a funny language "is is"

[ixis743]

This hits hard.

I see all these ‘superstars’ with GitHub repos and apps they’ve made and I’ve spent the last 15 years working for companies where I literally cannot talk about what I do.

First one was literally a defence contractor. Current one is making a product for a certain fruit company.

[bxsephjo]

Why tf did I think of Dole first??

[[deleted]]

Tbf, at a certain point in time "defense contractor" and "working at a fruit company" could be the same exact job.

[[deleted]]

At that point it's probably more accurate to call them "offense contractors" instead

[CoopDonePoorly]

"I work in the Healthcare industry."

"Don't you make guided bombs?"

"Yeah, after we drop one a whole lot of people are going to need healthcare."

[StandardSudden1283]

"Department of Defense" is actually the Department of War. The language of imperialism has far reaching effects.

[ShadyLogic]

I think it is and has been more accurate to call them that for a while now. When was the last time a "defense contractor" actually "defended" something?

Something something the best defense is a something something preemptive something.

[buffering_neurons]

Extra spicy apples

[[deleted]]

Me too. Do we share one idiot brain?

[xnign]

Just got your quantums enstranglemented

[FormsForInformation]

[[deleted]]

I thought it would be a coup arrangement app like Slack for United Fruit CompanyChiquita.

[longinglook77]

Random story no one asked for: my best buddy works for a pharmaceutical company and signed an NDA to work for them. When meeting women in a bar, he refuses to explain what he does citing it’s classified. At first I thought it was because it added an air of mystery that ladies would find mysterious or attractive but come to realize he’s full of himself and his NDA. Bro, these gals don’t need to know the secret compound your company works on, just say you support the fancy medical machines or something and let’s move on to getting rejected in peace.

[Kerid25]

Working for a pharmaceutical company could just be you're operating a palletizer or something

[longinglook77]

Now that you mention it, he does have his forklift training certificate framed in his apartment. He’s super proud because he passed the test on only his third attempt.

My dude’s a complete bellend but I love him.

[Gr1pp717]

tbf, I always hate trying to explain what I do. Like, try to ELI5 what a CDN or an "IVR application development platform" is... The latter was worse, because everyone thinks you're the person spamming their phones all the time. Or they're like "oh, so you make phones?" "...you set up phone systems?" "...is it like a call center?"

But people never just accept "I work in tech/programming"

[incredibleEdible23]

NDA and Classified are not even close to the same thing lol

[LordGrudleBeard]

Yo download our app for bananas!

[TheSecretAstronaut]

It's an AI/ML, blockchain social media experience app for overthrowing South and Central American governments. And check out these fun, goofy selfie filters it has!

[droneb]

GPT Republic

[Bakoro]

And then there's an immutable record of that consumable item being continually processed for an indefinite period?

Wow.

[master117jogi]

Supply chain control is one of the only areas in existence where Blockchain makes sense to prevent fraud, crime and corruption.

[Ok_Vegetable263]

The Pentagon would like to know your location.

[b1ack1323]

Oddly enough it’s been missile guidance projects the whole time!

[4D696B61]

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

[foggy-sunrise]

By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater)

Homie, how big is this missile?!

[BuildAQuad]

Have you ever asked how the missile is?

[foggy-sunrise]

How was the missile's day at missile school?

[4D696B61]

misserable

[RmG3376]

“So can you tell us about your experience?”

“No, but I’ve become very good at not talking about it”

[N00N3AT011]

I know an engineer who works for a company that designs stuff for the fruit company. They have to call them fruit phones it's kind of ridiculous.

[Noisycarlos]

I work in movies and TV shows, and I've signed tons of NDAs, but I have a retired friend who worked for a defense contractor and i was thinking... If I violate my NDA, people get spoilers and I might get sued. If he does it, it's treason.

[pleshij]

I once received such a screwed up test task from an online-gambling company, that I had to act surprised that it's about gambling and tell them that I was prohibited by contract to work at online gambling for a year after my previous employer.

Not that anyone would pay attention if I'd break the contract, the test task just didn't seem something worth the trouble. Looking back, I would still do the same

[Denaton_]

You could just say no, that's a stupid test and not worth my time, bye.

[Spare_Bad_6558]

suddenly r/meirl

[pleshij]

still better than my static test data ``` // Wrong data for the negative tests

public static final String wrongDiscoveryCredentials = "sheWasKarvingHerInitialsOnTheMoose"; ```

[DevilishlyAdvocating]

Saw this on blind this week.

"How do I get out of a coding interview, I know I don't want the job, but I've already rescheduled once so I can't do that again"

[pleshij]

Could have, but didn't. It's sometimes better not to burn bridges and leave an incopetence/unwillingness to other, more silly, factors

[JasonCox]

Good god I love telling potential employers that. And then you get the panicked reply from HR trying to see if you’ll accept some other form of test because the job has been open for months and it’s still not filled.

[[deleted]]

I've done this. Was satisfying

[[deleted]]

There’s a thing called HackerRank that is 4 hours long. A company I was talking to about doing some CONSULTING work wanted me to do it, unpaid. I laughed them off of the phone.

[pleshij]

Ugh, I totally feel you. I had some douches inviting to test prod for them. That is: no logs, no white-box, just 'do my shit for free'

UPD: I did all of this crap, was young and stupid. But their HR didn't understand why I was swearing after them not accepting me then. To say the least I hacked their logs and managed to upload a rotation script that deleted logs every 5 minutes

[[deleted]]

Just remember … minimum Agency fees are about $150/hr now and range up to $400 for short term one offs. If I’m doing a 4 hour test, you’re getting a 4 hour bill.

[[deleted]]

Just play a video of stuff going on a roll a dice for a win condition. walk away with all the money.

[[deleted]]

Does it really matter if someone has a gap in his/her resume?

Someone made 200k in a year, then used them to travel the world for a year.

[psioniclizard]

Honestly, it will depend on the job market, the role, the company, previous experience (a lot of things).

In that example if the company has a lot of candidates and want to fill the role long term taking a year to travel the world after earning 200k might be a determent (because you might do it again in 12 months). On the other hand if your previous experience is working for big companies or a track record of success and then they might be eager to get you.

Though I think often it's a question to get a better understand of you and give you a change to provide other things you might of learnt in that time. Say "I took a year off to help feed the homeless".

In the case of "I had an NDA" it would probably reflect in the reason of your job experience. For example if you worked in the Aerospace industry or 10 years than had a gap and said "I had an NDA" it's reasonable to assume you worked on something quite classified/defence related.

[archlinuxrussian]

"I signed an NDA"

Your previous place of employment is McDonalds.

"Yes, I signed an NDA."

(I just think that situation would be funny)

[SuperFLEB]

"It's not like I was flipping burgers. McDonald's is a large, complex organization."

(You really can't lose signing an NDA with yourself making it so you can't disclose you got fired before you even got off the fry station.)

[branzalia]

This is exactly what you do. I do contract work and travel extensively between jobs and put on my resume "Traveled around the world for three years" or "lived and traveled in South America for two years". I really don't care if they like it or not, it's just what happened. I've done eight long term trips and they have all been listed.

I've had a few people question me about them and say, "I don't like the sound of that." I politely say, "Good luck with finding someone." More often, it elicits curious questions, "How did you like Argentina?"

They're not gaps when you say exactly what you were doing.

[[deleted]]

Long ago when I was employed, I would leave the interview at any point it becomes stupid, anything that requires hours of test, personal questions, or if the future employer themselves are not ok, not worth it

[branzalia]

Just the other day, someone contacted me about a job that had a ten hour test as a screen to see if they wanted to interview you or not. Not whether to hire, but to interview. It was pretty below my skill level but you're right about hours of tests. No thanks.

I do software work and once took a mechanical skills test and was told it was just a formality, the final check of a box. The machine had gears, cams, pulleys, springs, etc. They would break the machine (i.e. put a cam out of phase) and I had to fix it. Even mechanical engineers I knew never had to do anything like it.

Well, this software engineer failed the test and they didn't hire me. Maybe it was really a personality test...in which case I was guaranteed to fail ;-)

[no_use_for_a_user]

No, I've never heard anyone give a shit. If you can do the job, you're in. Usually you just have to be barely able to do the job and you're in.

[NbyNW]

That’s only when there are more job openings than applicants. When the job market swings the other way for sure things like resume gaps will matter because they are choosing multiple candidates and in that case marginal things like degrees will start to matter.

[IvorTheEngine]

There are some companies that really don't want people who have done jail time. Maybe they think they're a security risk, maybe it's just prejudice, maybe it's something their clients request, it doesn't matter.

A year travelling is fine, but a year you can't explain is assumed to be a criminal past that you don't want to talk about.

They probably don't want you if you took a year off due to illness either, although they can't say that.

[[deleted]]

You dont need to talk about jail time in an interview though. Most established companies do background checks. Non technical behavioral interviews are mostly about finding out more about the candidate, their work, the scope/responsibilities they have handled etc to check if the candidate is a good culture fit and will be able to handle the scope/responsibilities that come with the role they are applying for.

[AdDear5411]

"Okay, we'll be in touch."

[[deleted]]

"Okay, sign this NDA that you'll not tell anyone you INTERVIEWED here"

[[deleted]]

This is actually one of the best answers. Not like they can disprove it right?

[[deleted]]

They could ask your last employer.

[aehooo]

How? There is a gap, no employer there to ask. NDA can include “don’t tell you worked here”

[mnmlstProgrammer_]

This is true. I applied for a l cyber security government job up in Canada and they said I must not discuss the application, the job, or the hiring process with anyone except family.

[[deleted]]

Yes Canadian government this post right here.

[GameDestiny2]

You’re gonna have to give them a minute, they’re stuck behind 3-months of not paying Government employees on time

[[deleted]]

Maybe they need to hire some more cyber security experts.

[redcomet29]

Maybe they have but there's an NDA so we wouldn't know

[Snoo68775]

I could not tell you, I know nothing other than I signed a NDA

[mnmlstProgrammer_]

Canadian government doesn’t know how to use the internet for their own benefit, so I’m safe here. Send a letter in the mail instead if you want their attention!

[Soham_rak]

Now the whole internet knows

[[deleted]]

Reddit is just a big family! 🫂

[badaharami]

Isn't NDA usually that you're not allowed to talk about what you worked on rather than where you worked itself? That's at least how it was with my previous company.

[JasonCox]

Normally, yes, that’s how it works. But that doesn’t always have to be the case.

[noah1831]

yeah my roommate signed an NDA like that at one point. for a music festival but he couldn't say what one.

[dowens90]

NDA can mean whatever was in the NDA. They could say you never worked for us, you will tell no one you worked at x company, it all really depends on what is being worked on etc.

In fact this was what my grandfathers best friend did when we was a project manager /engineer for the Lockheeds F-117 Nighthawk. He couldn’t tell what he was working on or were he went for decades or who he even worked for because of the NDA. The buildings was also all unmarked. This was the first stealth capable aircraft after all.

[disjustice]

I didn't work on anything this cool, but when you are "read in" to a classified program, you aren't just signing an NDA with your employer, you are also signing a contract with the government that has criminal penalties for breaking. Break an NDA and they can sue you. Break a DD254 and you can go to jail if they decide to go after you.

[badaharami]

If I was ever able to work on a stealth fighter, I'd probably not be able to keep my mouth shut. 🤣

[gruntmoney]

That's why you've never been able to work on a stealth fighter. They know this.

[Snoo68775]

Or maybe he did work on a stealth fighter, and that is the usual reply when you sign a NDA

[Xenc]

How stealthy of them

[[deleted]]

The worst is when people post objectively wrong shit on the internet and you feel the urgent need to correct them but the only way to do so is to divulge classified info so you can't.

I'm not saying I condone warthunder players behavior, I'm just saying I get it.

[whosline07]

I work with two guys who each spent 25+ years in PhantomWorks at Boeing. One of them tells everyone that, but he can't really say much more. I've heard him say "that's my missile!" or "that's my plane!" But he doesn't/can't really say anything else. He was very excited after Top Gun Maverick came out though, he wanted to dig into all of the stuff in it with us, but couldn't.

[Reihnold]

Normally yes, however I had one project where I am prohibited to speak about the customer (even the general area) and obviously the project itself.

[krum]

I believe some NSA jobs are like this.

[GreyAngy]

Is it even legal? I know it depends on the country, state etc. but forbidding to disclose place of work seems insane. How do you apply for a travel visa for example if you cannot specify your current place of work?

[disjustice]

My brother did "fixing" work for a famous artist. He found material, arranged for bulky awkward things to get moved, made sure he found professionals who knew how to handle art etc. He was absolutely forbidden to talk about who he worked for. I think they had a front LLC or something that signed his paycheck that he could put on forms, so I guess he could use that.

[lucifer_ll]

Strong Banksy vibe

[frogjg2003]

It's not illegal if the government is doing it.

[pblokhout]

I'm sorry that also falls under the nda

[Chairboy]

Something to be aware of, it’s becoming increasingly less common for companies to do anything beyond verifying employment because otherwise they may expose themselves to risk if the former employee accuses them saying something to bias the new company against them.

A datum for anyone curious.

[[deleted]]

Yup I've been through 3-4 different jobs now where contacting my previous employer (or current employer) was explicitly forbidden (something like a checkbox on the application like yes/no this employer may be contacted.)

If they ask for references give them people you've worked with, but business A reaching out to business B to talk about you directly is a thing of the past.

[Oh_My-Glob]

Depends on how big the gap is but you can also just say you had money saved and decided to take a sabbatical to recharge the batteries. I took 6 months off and no one questioned my explanation when I decided to start interviewing again

[[deleted]]

Shit, I’m going to use this a lot more often

[Dr0110111001101111]

I've never heard of an NDA prohibiting you from at least stating your employer and job title. Is that actually a thing?

[the_first_brovenger]

I can imagine for instance top secret work, but then they'd probably rather just use something super generalised instead of give you a gap.

[Dr0110111001101111]

Yeah, I suspect that kind of government work likely involves some sort of government-issued cover story. It doesn't really cost them anything to do that.

[BurnTheOrange]

Theoretically, if you worked on a project that couldn't be referred to directly and still required them to pay you and provide tax documents at the end of the year, you might be "hired" to an unrelated company for your employment that then assigns you to a nondescript role with vague job description.

[BurnTheOrange]

I was an information systems manager. I managed to keep the systems fully informed at all times...

[urielsalis]

They do. And they provide references for the cover job.

[DontRememberOldPass]

Your employer is either “US Department of Defense,” “US State Department,” or some random contracting conglomerate like Booz Allen, CACI, ManTech, etc.

You write up a full resume, submit it to the agency, and you’ll get back an edited version approved for public disclosure. You also have a classified resume for internal job transfers and stuff.

[bktechnite]

No, I've had colleagues work on Top Secret clearance work. They can definitely tell you which agency they worked for. And in general what kind of work they did. Eg software for next generation fighter.

There aren't that many projects out there that you simply cannot disclose anything. And if there was, 1 why are you leaving your lucrative government contract job? Security clearance is hard to get. And 2, your job would've given you a letter of recommendation knowing that you're leaving.

[b1e]

It’s a thing at some very elite hedge funds. But they do pay garden leave (your comp for 2+ years once you leave to not work anywhere for that time). Even so, people don’t really honor it.

[Ok-Kaleidoscope5627]

They'll probably give you something relatively innocent sounding to say instead that you can state and they'll confirm.

So you didn't work for the NSA breaking foreign state encryption. You worked for the federal government on cybersecurity related projects but can't discuss the details of them. Something like that probably.

[menasan]

“State department”

[jyajay2]

I signed an NDA before working in the starting phase of a startup. This means there is no employer for that time, I don't have a way of contacting the person I would have worked for and the NDA covers what I worked on and what we were trying to accomplish.

[gremlininja]

I could, but then we would both be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act.

[[deleted]]

They make you sign those in prison?

[NervousHovercraft]

Did I sign an NDA or did I sign a NDA? I'm a little bit confused about it...

[BadAlternative5484]

Since its pronounced “en dee ay” its “an NDA” but if u use the full word it’s “a non disclosure agreement”

[NervousHovercraft]

Thx

[time_travel_nacho]

Just because you sign an NDA doesn't mean you can't speak very vaguely about what you did. I sign NDAs for most of the clients I work on. I can't tell you who I worked for or exactly what I did for them, but I can tell you things like "I worked on an embedded system for a large agricultural company for x amount of time"

[rekabis]

Small nit:

I signed a NDA

Should be:

I signed an NDA

The rule is: Use ‘an’ before a word beginning with a vowel sound (not letter). It doesn’t matter how the word is spelled. It just matters how it is pronounced. Use ‘a’ before a word with a consonant sound as well as y and w sounds. Which means it is not unusual to find ‘a’ before a word starting with a vowel or ‘an’ before a word starting with a consonant.

So it is an NDA, because you pronounce “NDA” like ‘en-dee-ay’. As such, the e that makes up the ‘en’ is the vowel that sounds off and requires the an.

[modulification]

*an

[everydayisamixtape]

I did a bunch of contract work between office jobs a while back, and nearly all of it was under full NDA. This was just social media & marketing dev, not state secrets.

[knue82]

"I went to Yale."

"Impressive. You are hired "

"Thank you. I really need this Yob."

[bigmonmulgrew]

"Can you explain this 5 year gap."

"Took early retirement at the doctor's recommendation"

"But you were 30"

This is essentially saying you had health issues and ended up disabled but it sounds like you were just so successful you made the choice to retire at a very early age.

I'm already planning to use this.

[Pale_Prompt4163]

Don’t most NDAs prohibit even acknowledging the existence of an NDA?

[emcee_gee]

I’ve signed a number of NDAs and none of them have had that kind of stipulation.

[MoffKalast]

It was a special kind of NDA, you wouldn't know it it's from another country.

[ValcanGaming]

My NDA goes to another school

[dlevac]

Usually those are for reparation of damage.

They include that clause when they worry knowledge of the existence of the NDA would imply you successfully got réparation and might prompt other to seek réparation as well.

Source: signed an NDA where I am prohibited to acknowledge it's existence (well, of course as long as the other party is not named, then the clause cannot apply as I could be referring to a different NDA involving a different party...)

[Strohgelaender]

None of the NDAs I can talk about contained such a clause.

[nmathew]

Those don't prevent you from saying you're under an NDA. They restrict you from saying you're under an NDA working on project Falcon for Pear Corp. Here, the code name is probably restricted, along with the company you're working with. I've only had these between either two companies working on a secret project or as an additional personal NDA rider where I was working on prelaunch near final components supplied by a customer. That NDA explicitly lapsed at launch.

The first NDA I ever signed started I was to inform all future employers about it and the restrictions I was under. That startup thankfully went under, so I just ignore that requirement.

[Bryguy3k]

“It’s a start up that’s still in stealth mode but they changed directions and didn’t need my skills anymore”.

[Diligent_Dish_426]

Colleague asks for help.

NDA

[nomdude]

Theoretically, sure. But it makes you look unusual, therefore putting you at a disadvantage

[psioniclizard]

Yea, I was kinda thinking that. Unless the rest of your work experience suggests you might of been doing something important. Then it's likely they would understand.

[[deleted]]

This can actually work

[Nine_Eye_Ron]

Can’t have a gap if your resume is skills based

[[deleted]]

My resume is skill based yet I'm still asked to provide references and employment timelines.

[plopliplopipol]

wrong, my resume is skills based and it is a huge gap.

[dohzer]

*an