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I agree, I suspect that very few Googlers will be unvaxxed and that trying to identify these individuals and poach them will be tough. Not a good look if other tech companies are specifically bringing in non-vaccinated employees. Might create issues with current employees.

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Yeah, and on the demand side, I have a hunch that a company that implicitly or explicitly uses their lack of a vaccine requirement as a recruiting pitch would have a hard time recruiting a large subset of engineers.

The venn diagram of unvaxxed, exceptional engineers, willing to move to a new company is probably very, very small.

With the amount of ridiculous anti-vaxxing statements in this thread, I'm beginning to think there may actually be a large contingent of software engineers deciding not to be vaccinated.

I suspect there’s an even larger contingent of software engineers who love to argue and debate about practically anything, regardless of vaccination status.

What do you find unreasonable about having concerns with taking a vaccine that was rushed through testing, using a technique that has considerably less historical evidence than other vaccines, and that didn't even meet the original definition of vaccine (at least in the US)?

The data overwhelmingly shows that the vaccines are safe and effective.

The data overwhelmingly shows that COVID has a high chance of either death or longterm complications.

I know which of the two I'm going to take my chances with.

To be fair it is possible to both not take the vaccine nor ever get COVID.

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