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On 09/29/2021 10:16 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> On 9/29/2021 10:10 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> I did a phone interview with a defense firm in San Diego and they flew
>> me out for a face to face. The first question was 'Do you know <insert
>> obscure DoD language>?' to which I answered no. Interview over.
>
>
> So they didn't trust the phone lines to even mention that phrase on?
> Would rather have you flown over to ask you in person? Hehe :)
>
> Nothing in the world, let alone USA, is that secret. Interviewer must've
> been a crook the likes of which have filled this country's defense
> industries. Devouring people's money and in return pretending to be
> "some shit."
>
> And then they lose it to "Talibans." :)
>
>

Yup. I only worked on one DoD project They hired a programmer who lived 
in Seattle. He moved himself and his family across the country to 
Vermont before anybody bothered to ask about his wife. She was a Mexican 
national which disqualified him from the necessary clearance.

The usual problems that come from letting HR hire anybody but janitors 
are aggravated by the hiring is actually done by other contractors, not 
direct employees of the target company. The defense industry spins off a 
lot of niche specialists in separate cottage industries. My nephew did 
very well as sort of a technical writer. He knew the government jargon 
for proposals, design documents, and so forth.

The outcome is very expensive aircraft that don't fly very well, 
littoral combat vessels that can be sunk by a jihadi in a Zodiac, and 
destroyers with weapon systems that the Navy can't afford to buy 
ammunition for.