I don't know, with almost thirty private contracting firms already identified (and a note that that list will grow) and a target of ~1,000 federal employees, seems like all the actual “Tech Force” public sector staff are going to be in contract management, oversight, and related roles.
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#162> Tech Force will primarily recruit early-career technologists
Baking in the ageism right from the start. Few want to work for this government, but at least they can keep those unsavory 30+ year olds out!
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#163You can go ahead and add this to the list of job experiences that will earn you a "Definitely Not" rating from me in the hiring committee, along with doge, palantir, coinbase, etc.
You assume any of them would even want to work for/with you... I know I wouldn't want to work for or with someone or some company so close-minded as to use this sort of thing as some sort of candidate filter.
You're right – close-minded is immediately blacklisting. Thoughtful is:
"What did you do at $PLACE_CURRENT_ADMIN_LIKES, and what, in retrospect, did it actually accomplish that made people and society freer, more empowered, and their lives richer?"
At which point you can say "I made an interface to let anyone with access scrape ALPRs around the nation, and I genuinely didn't think about what people would do with it", and then that speaks for itself.
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#164Funnily enough I had recently been thinking something like this would be a good idea. Like if the govt. created a department with the soul goal of developing open tech for the public good. I guess you could say they kind of already do this with research grants but something with more clear focus could be a good thing.
It's too bad this was created by an absolute dumpster fire admin that will 100% use this for malicious ends.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed. I wouldn't want a spiteful employer. The flip side is that a lot of government jobs lead to pretty good private sector opportunities working with those same agencies. If you want to contact to DOE, knowing how it works in the inside and knowing people there definitely helps. A lot of military contractors are former military. Who better to…
> Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed I disagree. If a persons resume contains description of blatantly harmful work how else can I interpret it but negatively? At best you’d have to chalk it up to “just following orders” but I don’t want blind obedience in a prospective employee either. The destruction caused by DOGE is evident to anyone with eyes, as is the agency’s complet…
"Why is government so inefficient?"
"I would never hire anybody who worked for the government during an administration I didn't vote for!"
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#166Did I miss congress passing a new set of laws creating the US Tech Force? I'm confused, as this seems like a direct and open violation of the Appointments Clause.
oh no I wonder what will happen
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Before this administration recruiting was extremely difficult and candidate quality was low. I've heard that it's nearly impossible now and in the last 18 months they've only been able to hire a single person. Federal jobs used to be considered stable, with good benefits, but low pay. Now they're unstable, the current administration is actively working to make benefits worse, and the pay is still really low. Also,…
Before all of this happened the hiring I had to deal with when I was federal fell into similar buckets: 1. Completely inept or lazy people that couldn't get a job anywhere else (~50%) 2. Smart people that took the job because it was close to their family (~30%) 3. Smart people that took the job because they liked the the specific mission and felt like it was really important (~10%) 4. Smart people that took the job a…
There's just no path to home ownership in the DC area for the fed career path after the ZIRP era. A capable person would have to be insane or desperate given the economics alone.
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#168Is this just US Digital Service V2? https://www.usds.gov/
Yeah my first thought was that this already existed, was doing great work, and got canned by DOGE in favor of what appears to be a MUCH MUCH more expensive version of it here.
And with Trump-aligned people running it, of course, not like the purged USDS. One of the perks is "networking" after all.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before all of this happened the hiring I had to deal with when I was federal fell into similar buckets: 1. Completely inept or lazy people that couldn't get a job anywhere else (~50%) 2. Smart people that took the job because it was close to their family (~30%) 3. Smart people that took the job because they liked the the specific mission and felt like it was really important (~10%) 4. Smart people that took the job a…
There's just no path to home ownership in the DC area for the fed career path after the ZIRP era. A capable person would have to be insane or desperate given the economics alone.
DC has the highest per capita income of anywhere in the US (vs other states/territories), so when you realize federal workers are producing the most value for America the economics are at least a little better. If you look at relative economic slackers like workers of NYC and the private industry where less value is per capita created, it's a bit rougher.
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#170Figures this comes from the National Design Studio ( https://ndstudio.gov/ ) which ironically also ignores the government's own advice on web standards and correct use of identifying headers. One can assume the US Tech Force will perceive itself as also unfettered by those silly rules and good practices.
Click on America by design initiative "What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong. But what's the foundation of that brand? One that's more globally recognized than practically anything else. ... This is President Trump going bigger than President Nixon" Jesus christ, man
I about spit my coffee when I saw that. Good grief.
> We've been conditioned to accept that mediocre in government is normal.
Yes, I do now accept that mediocre [sic] in government is normal for the next few years.