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>The company under discussion at Google. They're great at hiring, at least by their metrics

Yes, I know about the context. "At least by their metrics" which can be good, but certainly not great. To be fair they have a never ending flood of candidates and have to deal with that.

But the main issue is that it only gets candidates with a very narrow set of skills.

"it implies the company is equipped to work with telecommuters but sees telecommuting as a disadvantage"

Not necessarily, it can be a one-off setup for the few telecommuters.

"It's unsurprising given the work they do: they take existing open-source software and package it, maintain it, and support it. This is work that can be largely done independently. They don't write OSes like the biggest software giants do - they keep the lights running for Linux, the FOSS community's shared OS."

You are underestimating heavily what Red Hat does. Especially the amount of development that goes there.