Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in...
by burfog on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:30PM
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The situation with presidential qualifications is one-of-a-kind special. Hiring at tech companies isn't spelled out in the constitution.
Constitutional requirements can also be changed, and it is long past time that we do so. The country has been around for 2.5 centuries, and now has hundreds of millions of people. We wouldn't suffer a shortage of presidential candidates if we required that all 4 grandparents (determined all possible ways) and all descendants and spouses have been born in the USA, along with all living ancestors and descendants of all of those. The job is simply too important to allow otherwise. (this would disqualify the most recent two, along with failed candidates like Romney and Cruz)
For tech companies we shouldn't be quite so extreme, but it also isn't good to ignore the problems.
Constitutional requirements can also be changed, and it is long past time that we do so. The country has been around for 2.5 centuries, and now has hundreds of millions of people. We wouldn't suffer a shortage of presidential candidates if we required that all 4 grandparents (determined all possible ways) and all descendants and spouses have been born in the USA, along with all living ancestors and descendants of all of those. The job is simply too important to allow otherwise. (this would disqualify the most recent two, along with failed candidates like Romney and Cruz)
For tech companies we shouldn't be quite so extreme, but it also isn't good to ignore the problems.