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by rinchik 2383 days ago
Ah this is so refreshing! I'm glad to see something completely different in the CS job ads sector. And Pentagon, Arlington, VA as a location? Oooff, every single one who grew up with X-Files would be excited about that!

Salary is average at best, completely agree, but the other major bummer I can call out is this:

> This position is subject to pre-employment and random drug testing

This is such an outdated, self-limiting, and practically barbaric requirement modern days! Can you imagine the amount talent they are blindly passing on.?

I would even dare to bring up the Bill Gate's (yes that guy!) alleged talk in Saudi Arabia [1], which goes as something along these lines: "..if you’re not fully utilizing half the talent in the country, you’re not going to get close to the goal you have set for yourself..."

[1] Bill Gate's precedent was about the issue that is an order of magnitude more severe/significant than a drug testing: women's rights, but I find the analogy quite applicable and illustrative here