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I suppose the flame graph feature developer could then write on their resume:

“reduced bandwidth costs by $X millions per year by implementing a ‘content of interest’ data visualization. Users’ time-to-success improved 5%”

That kind of thing makes me wonder what sort of high caliber developers go into this field. Lotta good engineering going on within this, uh, unique, high volume traffic situation.

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> That kind of thing makes me wonder what sort of high caliber developers go into this field.

I read long ago that having a porn site on your resume was a pretty strong black mark with non-porn companies, even if you were a developer. Since there's so little crossover an experience sharing between mainstream developers and porn site developers, porn site engineering tended to be relatively sub par. My guess is few high caliber developers go into porn site engineering.

Surely it depends which site - the big sites have serious scale and engineering challenges which will outweigh the seediness aspect while the vast majority of sites are just a CMS paired with a payment processor integration.

Definitely not true. I think every developer understands that porn is pushing the limits of technology. If I saw someone coming from any of the big sites I'd definitely be interested in what they worked on.

Every hiring manager I know only cares about what you worked on, not who you worked for.

If these devs are high caliber, they don't mind the paltry pay. Mindgeek (the Canadian company that owns most NSFW tube sites) is notorious for low engineering pay.

Isn't most of Canada known for low (software) engineering pay? Or is this relative even to other Canadian companies?

Sometimes I'm thinking about working for decent porn site like pornhub or anything else from their network. It seems in this day and age it is the last thing that brings pure joy and happiness to its customers. If you know what I mean ;-)

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