Ask HN: Would you hire a felon for technical work?
Committed a white collar money crime, over two decades ago. Did time for it. Left that behind. Completed parole, even got pardoned for the crimes. NOTE: pardon != expungement.
I have an extensive IT background, including sysadmin, support, automation coding, HPC admin.
Jobs and gigs since then have had me working on critical systems and having Administrator/root access to sensitive data.
It just seems harder lately to get past this, and it's extremely discouraging.
Would you hire someone with those creds, or does the presence of a past felony just automatically preclude them from consideration?
I have an extensive IT background, including sysadmin, support, automation coding, HPC admin.
Jobs and gigs since then have had me working on critical systems and having Administrator/root access to sensitive data.
It just seems harder lately to get past this, and it's extremely discouraging.
Would you hire someone with those creds, or does the presence of a past felony just automatically preclude them from consideration?