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No. Gitlab discussed defining a policy to not hire Chinese/Russian nationals. They did not decide to not hire them, someone just made an issue to discuss it, which then got linked.

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Fwiw, GitLab was discussing about a policy not to hire residents of China and Russia for specific job families.

It was never about nationality.

Nah, we did decide to not hire them. The issue blew up before we merged the change. As far as I can tell we are going to continue with the policy.

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