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A friend was being heavily sought after by one of our nation's intelligence services. Excellent compensation package, lots of relevant work. But he'd be unable to have anything on his resume and would likely be unqualified for any work outside the organization if he wanted to leave. Sounds a little like Apple. He didn't take the job.

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> But he'd be unable to have anything on his resume and would likely be unqualified for any work outside the organization if he wanted to leave

That is an exceptional talent retention mechanism that I don't think enough people consider when they talk about how the three-letter-agencies maintain their large talent pools. Once you are in in is very difficult to get out.

Great for retention, pretty terrible for recruiting though.

AFAIK most TLAs invest a lot in training since they're going to really struggle with recruiting people with the specialised knowledge they need; which is fine when that's a reasonable path for your org, but as a company, training AI experts seems really tough.

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