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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by sokoloff on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:05PM (#24843934)
> it would be a complete dick move to have someone relocate (possibly involving change of country) and then fire them 2 weeks later

This. I hold a slightly lower bar (meaning more willing to take a chance) on someone who is unemployed than if they're working now. Worst case if I take someone unemployed, hire them "light", and they don't work out is they're back where they already were, whereas if someone quits their job to come work here and gets fired, they're worse off than they were before.

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by srtjstjsj on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:41PM (#24844087)
Shouldn't that be the employee's choice, not yours?

You're still interfering with that unemployed person's job hunt.

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by sokoloff on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:14PM (#24844435)
I’m not sure I understand. Someone is unemployed, applies, interviews just a whisker under our normal bar, and if I offer them a job, I’m the bad guy in this story?
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