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JasonPunyon on May 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: On Counter Offers

Those company names are anonymized (except for my DBA and Stack Exchange). According to that CV I've worked at "A Management Consulting and Reinsurance Company", "Big Hedge Fund" and "Bigger Hedge Fund".

marvin on May 18, 2012 [–]

I always assumed that these kinds of anonymizations were to protect your former employer, but apparently it goes both ways. Thanks for the tip.

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