I don't want to hijack this thread but what was the end result of the decision of Gitlab not hiring _in_ certain countries anymore? A lot of media coverage when the incident happened but no idea what happened afterwards and can't easily find it.
AFAIK, nothing material happened after the announcement. There are lots of companies which do not hire in certain countries.
Note that this was always only about excluding certain job roles who have administrative access to production servers, not all jobs in general.
As another one said, their policy in not hiring people "in" rather than "from", as tax rules change from country to country.
In all seriousness, hopefully these things are not related.