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Originally Posted by Unregistered
This kind of acquihire thing is common in the private sector and can often make sense. It's much more valuable to acquire people as a team rather than have to build up the team person by person over time.
You think when Google, Meta, etc acquires a company they will bother to make the staff leetcode and go through interview processes? These are nothing more than bureaucratic formalities.
Many public servants complain about their org's bureaucratic culture, but when somebody tries to do the right thing like in this instance, also complain....
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This is far from the right thing for 2 very simple reasons:
(1) expenditure of public monies. MOF controls the purse strings, not GovTech. We're not talking about Softbank throwing another $500m your way.
In public sector, vendor want to give you a gift already must declare to dunno how many levels up. Every cent is counted. What message does it send when there's a mass hire of people way above payscale with no immediately obvious use for them?
(2) the fact that they could walk right in when the thousands of other existing employees had to go through the rigid process, is highly inequitable and unfair.