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Fingerprint? No employer does that short of the government. Standard background checks should be sufficient.

toomuchtodo 10mo ago
Financial services, especially folks who touch capital markets, does fingerprints and drug testing, but agree a standard background check should be fit for purpose for this use case assuming an exception process with a human queue processor.
- 0x3f 10mo ago
  Is tech really that relatively cushy? Because I'd quit for either of these, and I don't have any reason to fear them.
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  - buellerbueller 10mo ago
    How do you feel about Palantir?
    - 0x3f 10mo ago
      That the capabilities of its technology are greatly exaggerated.
  - pixl97 10mo ago
    >Is tech really that relatively cushy? Just wait till there is more supply than demand in programmers/tech. Then you'll learn how much the rest of the world sucks. A lot of us here are earning in the top few percent of our countries households and we don't have to deal with any of the bullshit that people making 1/4th we do or less.
    - 0x3f 10mo ago
      > Just wait till there is more supply than demand in programmers/tech. Will this happen though? There's still a lot of work to be done, but principally I wonder if AI hype hasn't actually reduced the top of the funnel significantly. If non-programmers (i.e. those who might become programmers) believe the job "won't exist in six months", they are probably not going to set themselves up for that direction. Plus juniors starting work now will suffer from leaning on AI too much as well. Overall I think it's counterintuitive. When I was growing up, it seemed obvious that my generation knew technology better than the last, and of course the next generation would be even more familiar. In practice though, kids these days are mostly phone-only. The ability to produce technological artifacts remains uncommon.
      - pixl97 10mo ago
        >Will this happen though? I mean, it will, but trying to time the market is a hard game :D
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munk-a 10mo ago
Running a business where your employees are isolated with customers in often remote areas is not a standard business. Additional safety for both parties is certainly warranted.

Financial services, especially folks who touch capital markets, does fingerprints and drug testing, but agree a standard background check should be fit for purpose for this use case assuming an exception process with a human queue processor.

0x3f 10mo ago
Is tech really that relatively cushy? Because I'd quit for either of these, and I don't have any reason to fear them.
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- buellerbueller 10mo ago
  How do you feel about Palantir?
  - 0x3f 10mo ago
    That the capabilities of its technology are greatly exaggerated.
- pixl97 10mo ago
  >Is tech really that relatively cushy? Just wait till there is more supply than demand in programmers/tech. Then you'll learn how much the rest of the world sucks. A lot of us here are earning in the top few percent of our countries households and we don't have to deal with any of the bullshit that people making 1/4th we do or less.
  - 0x3f 10mo ago
    > Just wait till there is more supply than demand in programmers/tech. Will this happen though? There's still a lot of work to be done, but principally I wonder if AI hype hasn't actually reduced the top of the funnel significantly. If non-programmers (i.e. those who might become programmers) believe the job "won't exist in six months", they are probably not going to set themselves up for that direction. Plus juniors starting work now will suffer from leaning on AI too much as well. Overall I think it's counterintuitive. When I was growing up, it seemed obvious that my generation knew technology better than the last, and of course the next generation would be even more familiar. In practice though, kids these days are mostly phone-only. The ability to produce technological artifacts remains uncommon.
    - pixl97 10mo ago
      >Will this happen though? I mean, it will, but trying to time the market is a hard game :D
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munk-a 10mo ago

Running a business where your employees are isolated with customers in often remote areas is not a standard business. Additional safety for both parties is certainly warranted.