I found it to be the fastest and most effective way to use the find command and exclude specific folders. That is using the “prune” option:

find /FOLDER_TO_SEARCH_INSIDE -path /FOLDER_TO_EXCLUDE -prune -o -name 'NAME_OR_PATTERN_TO_SEARCH_FOR' -print

That’s it, Enjoy!

Source:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4210042/how-to-exclude-a-directory-in-find-command