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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by anoncake on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:33AM (#21440668)
Discriminating someone because of their Chinese ethnicity would be hard to justify but what about Chinese citizenship (especially if it's the only one) or ties to China like family living there? Those would make someone vulnerable to pressure by the Chinese government.
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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:27AM (#21441373)
No. As long as someone has a green card or citizenship, who cares where their family lives? The only exception would be for national security clearances, and those affect Americans as well.
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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by Diggsey on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:39AM (#21441487)
The argument made in the thread is that someone could be pressured by the foreign government into leaking sensitive information.

Where an employee's family lives seems like the single most important point to consider...

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by NoodleIncident on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:20PM (#21445331)
Is it legal for a private US company to apply (some of) the same tests used to determine national security clearances in its hiring decisions? Or is the government the only entity allowed to make decisions that way? I'm genuinely asking, I haven't thought about this conflict before.
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