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tghw on Jan 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trust is Fragile

I've not been directly involved in the hiring of a sys admin, since I'm a dev, but I do know that we at least do background checks.

dhh on Jan 17, 2012 [–]

Can you ask? I'm curious to learn what these background checks entail. Also, if they actually do prevent bad apple's from joining, why not do them to programmers as well (given that they have the power to program backdoors etc into systems).

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