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For those people thinking this is a huge opportunity: there are 30 spots total for this year. This is a very small program, so will be highly selective.

Also, since it's Federal and requires a Background Investigation drug use will be an issue. Surprisingly they allow fully remote though, which is a huge plus.

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"Equitable" means it will only be open to people with connections in special interests.

Do you have any proof?

Being so selective means that only those with the highest credentials get approved - and we all know how these credentials can be harvestered: 90% nepotism and elitism, while only 10% skill. Those 10% will be the brains, while the 90% will bring the network onto which these solutions will be promoted

Normally I would agree with you. In this case, it was the opposite. They truly looked at the candidates skill set and capabilities.

Unfortunately, the government agencies where the chosen candidates were supposed to be funneled to and hired is where the usual government dysfunction kicked in. Those agencies didn’t seem to be on board with the whole program.

The clearance thing pisses me off. I saw a job listing, at actually decent pay, with some niche technologies that some people feel strongly towards (Haskell, etc.) albeit with a contractor not a gov agency.

Form the description, it sounded like they had a contract to rip off QubesOS (or at least develop something which sounded eerily similar), which apparently requires one of the highest clearances possible.

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