The first step - usually recruiter filter about more then 50% of candidates who are more then enough for you.
//- Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing//
wow, that's a lot.
Change that to AMA session, and rate candidate based on the answers.
//. Founders were forced to sell the company under pressure exactly because the government intended to get control over the most important social network, which it did not have.//
Lol, I assume you didn't believe the 'story' that Pasha was forced to sell his company?
//It is a typical success story of an online retail business. It actually does not show anything that could be even slightly resemble affiliation with Putin and his inner circle. I know other relatively big companies which had similar growth trajectory and are still controlled by their founders.//
In Russia? really? show me them.
For now, I think you are really trying to look fav into Russian biz-scene, but that's not the case for the last 9 years.
You either work with gov or you f-ked. That the rule here.
Last example is Tinkoff, who at the beginning of his bank licked Putin ass as hard as he could, but now was forced to sell )
1. Yeh, your presentation is pretty friendly. Putin probably do not know what the k VK is, cause the all news he received through literally files :) But if you think that there is 'ex' in their circle of relationships - you are completely wrong.
The fact that he was arrested actually proves it.
2. Look into Bell research against widberries, its quite public.
1. I'm not part of board and I have no way to find you examples like that.
Veto is exactly form of control, UN is under 'veto' control of Russia, and that's exactly the reason UN is currently can't do anything against Russian war crimes.
2. You may read it differently, only if you are kind of very biased towards 'beautiful' Yandex, cause even in official statement it was written that's due to Russian politics system :) plus
- read Government statement before and after this board was appointment.
- 2 of 12 government appointed? lets read:
The PIF will be governed by a board comprising 11 directors, including representatives from five leading Russian universities (Higher School of Economics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow State University, St Petersburg State University and the St Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics) and three non-governmental institutions (the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Moscow School of Management Skolkovo and the Endowment of Moscow School #57)
all above is government appointed and 'pro'-government.
3. Yes, that's what Tigran told as CEO. We have to care about 20k employees and all that bullshit when at the same time Yandex.ru page showed all news that 'everything is fine, there is no war, some special kind of operation against nazi' being one of the major player of Russian propaganda.
No, you can't be 'anti-war' and doing that, you can't be silent, and yes if 20k stopped to worry about have 0 ability to buy new iPhone and millions of people service disrupted may be we saw not 4k people on the streets of Moscow but 100k-200k and then we could talk with government.
So yes, exactly that behavior allowing corrupt and crazy government doing anything they want.
lets talk about 'small things' as you say:
1. Bullshit. Meduza, novaya, skr - they could do it. they could close it as you say but they choose not.
They are currently sold Yandex news to VK group, but basically they are telling look we are showing not Yandex news, but VK-news on our main page - we have no power over there.
Disgusting.
// It is quite clear that in the recent years Yandex was trying to migrate from Russia as soon as possible to be less dependent on the whims of the regime. They did find the niches where they could be successful outside of Russia (at the very least - delivery, taxi and ride-heiling, cloud) but didn't have time to execute the plan.//
They were trying to do it as part of Yandex Group. So no, they was not trying to 'migrate from Russia', they was trying to find new markets, like they was trying do search in Turkey at 2010.
lets see:
1. VK (Vkontakte) - Miralashvili, part of REK, friend of Sobchak and Putin :)
2. Wildberries - under patronage of Rosnef from the start.
3. Magnit - Galitskiy told from the beginning that he had to have a relationship with the government.
heh, ok lets see:
1. Golden stock which one gave veto on all decision was hold by Sberbank.
2. 2019 year, Russian gov takeover Yandex corporate structure: https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/18/11/2019/5dd263f59...
basically Volozh gave up Yandex to government.
3. Current position where Yandex is choose to silently agree with war - best proof that the company controlled by small people from fsb :)
And yes, be silent and don't state your position - the same as supporting the war.
And I don't talk about small things like:
1. Yandex news where you can read only pro-government news :)
2. Tigran meeting with Putin and don't make a statement.