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		vonmoltke on Jan 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process > I know that feels a bit like employee/victim-blaming, but it also shows how important that employee values his personal software freedoms. It's also a great way to punish the naive who have since wised up and want out. There sure do seem to be an awful lot of stupid biases like this floating around for an industry that claims it can't find talent.

georgestephanis on Jan 5, 2016 [–]

Any company that claims it can't find talent is artificially limiting their hiring pool, perhaps based on geographic constraints or the like. We're up to 422 Automatticians at the moment, and that's not really slowing down.

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