fifteen years ago in California Bay Area, when experienced programmers showed up a the door of pre-funded companies, and especially as phones with ads became a

fifteen years ago in California Bay Area, when experienced programmers showed up a the door of pre-funded companies, and especially as phones with ads became a huge revenue source, one internal Human Resources message was "do not hire anyone that does not have a job already." This conveniently included those who had their own small business or side-gig priors, as well as those that did not work well enough with teams, and those newly graduated without work experience. As the raw number of humans with some applicable skills increase world wide, and the disconnect between pre-funded wealthy environments and others increases, new invisible "flags" likely can be applied. Not to defend the way business is done in China, but I have heard that when they assembled teams for an important new company, they often did not do as the West has done and cast infinitely large hiring nets with infinitely more nuanced and rare characteristics, rather in China the rumor is that they just used who they could find with a reasonable search, and got on with it.. Lastly, it is ironic that the divisive, command and control environments found in long-term stable business, are actually very negative to creative and open-minded people who want to try things.. Yet these "rules" might favor those in the stable business world, bringing all the anti-communication and top-down culture from there. odd times