Comment by ActorNightly
4 years ago
Id actually wonder if criminal history matters when you have skills like this that are very much in demand.
If this went to court, the charges of malicious intent would likely not stick, so jailtime could likely be avoided in leu of fine/community service.
Competent tech companies will not give a shit about criminal record of this nature.
Expulsion from school is pretty much irrelevant, especially for CS careers. You can get a GED, find any college with CS program that will take your money, spend a year having fun, apply for an internship at a tech company, do a good job to be offered a return, talk to HR to go directly into entry level role, and you are set (have personally seen 2 cases of this happening with an intern).
The most functionally harmful thing would be monetary cost, which is still inconsequential considering the salary this guy would make.
It depends on how regulated the particular industry is. If you're building consumer web apps at a startup, it probably won't matter. If you want to be a government contractor, it's probably a nonstarter.
Most of the industry where the guy will be paid appropriately is going to be private. Cyber security specialists for things like AWS get paid much more than any government contractor.
That's not really the best example; AWS is a government contractor. It isn’t a coincidence that HQ2 is a few blocks away from the Pentagon.