[pearjuice]

I don't want to hijack this thread but what was the end result of the decision of Gitlab not hiring _in_ certain countries anymore? A lot of media coverage when the incident happened but no idea what happened afterwards and can't easily find it.

[the-dude]

IIRC, they are not hiring 'in' certain counties. This is different than 'from' certain countries.

AFAIK, nothing material happened after the announcement. There are lots of companies which do not hire in certain countries.

[toupeira]

The discussion is still ongoing, the latest official communication I'm aware of was the blog post at https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/update-on-hiring/

Note that this was always only about excluding certain job roles who have administrative access to production servers, not all jobs in general.

[UserIsUnused]

Usually it's Legal/HR issues with the way to pay your employees.

As another one said, their policy in not hiring people "in" rather than "from", as tax rules change from country to country.

[bArray]

[Speculation] Perhaps a DDoS or a disgruntled employee...

In all seriousness, hopefully these things are not related.