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		munmaek on Nov 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Re... No. Gitlab discussed defining a policy to not hire Chinese/Russian nationals. They did not decide to not hire them, someone just made an issue to discuss it, which then got linked.

clemmakesapps on Nov 8, 2019 | [–]

Fwiw, GitLab was discussing about a policy not to hire residents of China and Russia for specific job families.

It was never about nationality.

AnonGitLabEmpl on Nov 8, 2019 | [–]

Nah, we did decide to not hire them. The issue blew up before we merged the change. As far as I can tell we are going to continue with the policy.

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