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Re:Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition by js2 on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:26PM (#19308099)
In the early 2000s I worked for an early cloud company. We interviewed someone whose name I recognized as someone associated with a very well known person that had been convicted for computer crimes, and that this someone had testified to avoid prosecution himself. (Edit: he had plead guilty.)

Despite the someone’s recognizeable name, at no point did he disclose this aspect of his past. We decided to pass on him.

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Re:Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition by oogali on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:35PM (#19308141)
Did you pass on this person because of the prior conviction that he chose not to volunteer, or because he flunked the interview and wasn't a good fit for the team?

Did you judge him better or worse because he cut a deal?

More importantly, if we take the implication that he was passed on because he didn't volunteer info to a question you didn't directly ask -- can you really blame him for not volunteering the details?

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Re:Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition by js2 on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:57PM (#19308207)
It’s been more than 15 years and my memory is hazy. The part I remember is recognizing his name.

But I don’t know. We were a company that provided cloud computing services and he had previously plead guilty to computer hacking crimes. With more life experience I wouldn’t hold that against a person today but at the time I probably did. My thinking then was that it was relevant information that he should have disclosed.

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Re:Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition by toomuchtodo on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:36PM (#19308143)
Why would you feel they’re required to disclose that information? In eleven states and thirteen cities, it’s even illegal for you to ask as an employer (“ban the box” initiatives), public or private (its drastically more states and cities for only public employers not permitted to ask).

https://www.nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hir...

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