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I can confirm membership status is always listed on resumes. It is no big secret.

• kerng 6y ago
  This is a privacy fallacy to fall for and big tech (ad) companies do this a lot. Just because a single or few instances of a particular information attribute is public, it's quite different compared to majority of instances being available at the same time - that this made it to front page of HN shows it's at least interesting news to many.
  • contingencies 6y ago
    Yes, when working in any company, including foreign companies, domestically, CCP membership status is always included on the resume. It's generally seen by employers as a positive point. I have never received a mainland Chinese resume overseas, so would not know about the overseas question. Edit: The parent originally asked "even when working in foreign companies? even when working in foreign countries?"
• TechBro8615 6y ago
  According to the news articles about this story, some of the names on the list were working for western companies and UK consulates. Do you think those people list their CCP membership on their resumes?
  • contingencies 6y ago
    If they are hired through normal hiring portals, listing the party membership status is a standard feature of said portals, so yes it would have been known. If they hire directly, they probably asked and may have been lied to. I highly doubt that Chinese tradecraft is so bad as to compromise purposefully and successfully planted undercover agents on assignment with foreign nation-states or similar by listing them as party members in low security databases... but you never know! Bureaucracies being what they are...
    • TechBro8615 6y ago
      You really think people working for the UK consulate and major Western corporations would disclose their CCP membership on their job applications? Seems a bit naive to me, unless I’m missing some sarcasm...