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		ummonk on Aug 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SWE interviews should be paid You bring up good points about privacy and regulatory difficulties. I just don’t know why you focused on the monetary total earlier. You’re already spending thousands of man hours of your own engineers’ time to interview them - the gift card cost is not that consequential in comparison.

jcims on Aug 22, 2021 [–]

I wasn't clear, it's not the money. The gift card suggestion was basically a way to pay 'under the table', which doesn't scale.

ummonk on Aug 22, 2021 | [–]

Ah that makes sense!

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