The article says the felon coders who were hired are in the test engineering department, due to restrictions clients have when it comes to data access by people

The article says the felon coders who were hired are in the test engineering department, due to restrictions clients have when it comes to data access by people with criminal records. And those with criminal records are allowed to practice law. Quite a few inspirational stories of this actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Hopwood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Hopwood