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North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500

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145 points cwwc | 3 comments | 08 Apr 25 00:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.585s | source
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throwaway2037 ◴[08 Apr 25 03:58 UTC] No.43618229[source]▶
This part is genius:

    > Nowadays, Leggio told Fortune he won’t even set up an interview with a candidate who seems promising on paper unless they agree to one final step.

    “Say something negative about Kim Jong Un,” Leggio tells potential job candidates, referring to the third-generation authoritarian Supreme Leader of North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Through research, Leggio learned insulting the DPRK’s Supreme Leader is forbidden, and North Korean citizens could face serious punishment for showing anything less than reverence.

    “The first time I ever did it, the person started freaking out and cursing,” said Leggio.

    The job seeker subsequently blocked Leggio across all social media platforms. Now Leggio makes the same request before every single interview. Other startups and founders he knows are asking the same thing of job seekers, he said.
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1. slt2021 ◴[08 Apr 25 06:18 UTC] No.43618844[source]▶
Russia/Ukraine has similar gotcha screening question: "Crimea belongs to ... whom?"

pro-Russians will try to weasel and twist themselves into pretzel justifying Crimea annexation. Pro-Ukraine will have the opposite answer.

similar thing in USA: try to force any US public figure to condemn genocide in Gaza or apartheid in Palestine... and you will be deported, canceled, and debunked on the spot.

or try to ask any US public figure to condemn any of the US wars, or the way US public was led into supporting them and do the math on who picked up the tab of the war...

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2. pmezard ◴[08 Apr 25 08:58 UTC] No.43619662[source]▶
Or you can keep the first question or a variant like "Did Russia invade Ukraine?" in the the USA too.
3. keybored ◴[08 Apr 25 20:56 UTC] No.43626369[source]▶
You’re comparing politicans to regular people. Politicans have a vested interest in saying very specific things (in public) in order to maintain their myriad of alliances. Regular people that you accost in the street can say whatever they like, lie if it is convenient, if it furthers their own goals. Yes, Eastern Europeans have the ability to lie and aren’t bots programmed by Zelensky/Putin.[1]

[1] Not that they will necessarily believe or be on the same page as what the government says but we can stop here.