Not true at all. I know a few current and former Googlers who worked on porn. The skillset is fairly transferrable to any high-traffic website.
At least in Silicon Valley, people don't really care what you've worked on as long as you have the technical chops. Hell, look at all the folks working for defense contractors - their biggest problem is that it tends to lock them into a proprietary software stack, not that they've written software used to blow people up.
At least in Silicon Valley, people don't really care what you've worked on as long as you have the technical chops. Hell, look at all the folks working for defense contractors - their biggest problem is that it tends to lock them into a proprietary software stack, not that they've written software used to blow people up.