Readit NewsAlso you assume employees would love it. But what happens when you get blackballed in the system by a bad actor? How do you dispute what prior employers said about you?
Are they not doing that already? Even with all the current processes, employers are taking a chance. If a candidate profile is good, can't they take the same chance without all those processes?
Your best shot (imo) is to find a way to officially certify developers for a demanded tool. Otherwise I don't ever see this idea taking off.
Take LinkedIn as example, and the messages from recruiters inviting for an interview. Why can't they get the profile checked by hiring managers and send out an offer directly? Once the candidate accepts it, collect the documents and run background checks and deny if there is discrepancy.
Just saying, it's really hard when your job or even your future green card is on the line. When the grunt engineers are 1 mistake away from being sent away from the US and lose all their potential futures in the US, they are much more likely to bury their heads carry out what they are told from the managers.
We need to go for the higher ups more.
I'd not last a single day at such a company who would ask me to do such things. I had worked for a national political party in IT and left the job once I found about it corrupt practices and scams.
If we, as engineers collectively upheld ethics as part of work culture, Meta wouldn't have attempted it.
Almost always the so called "community" supporting a OSS project is an employee of a commercial vendor who is only interested as long as he is assigned to the project or task.
The solution is to have a full time owners and maintainers for all the critical projects and the government has to foot the bill. The govt can setup a division to identify such projects.
Not saying that they would allow but it'd help the community as a whole with less duplication of work and deliver more features.
Apply at https://moduscreate.com/careers/5984037003/?gh_jid=598403700... and feel free to mention that you saw Boris (me) post this on HN.