I'm curious what you mean by this as someone who has worked in a SCIF for years. What I've found (and I personally benefited from this) is that interviews are f

I'm curious what you mean by this as someone who has worked in a SCIF for years. What I've found (and I personally benefited from this) is that interviews are far more forgiving for people who have security clearances, because of the comparatively tiny available talent pool. AWS, Azure etc allow people to join as "SRE" (a bastardized term at this point) or "Cloud Engineer" and later switch to SWE pretty easily.