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Been hearing from colleagues about a flood of applicants, and within those, a large majority have no business applying (i.e. no visa support, not in appropriate city, not right general skills, fake person).

So how early in the process:

1) initial resume upload & pre-screening questions 2) second pass for more info 3) initial discovery call (5-30 minutes)

TIA.

To protect the innocent/guilty, I won't name the company here.

1. Need a data source, which previously was open for commercial use, for one of my MVP features

2. After a merger, company now offers a "no-cost" license to use so long as proper attribution is given and brief approval process is completed. Have been talking with them off/on multiple times for 12 months to gain access. Seems I am too small a company for them to really pay attention to regardless of their public statements re: access. I have even asked them to come up with a "per api call" fee that was fair to both parties (until I can get bigger and pay their ~$5K average minimum fee) but no luck so far.

3. Came across an academic study on github which used this company's data from 1 year ago.

Am I allowed to use the old data set for my internal research and commercial purposes? I only want to do the right thing.

Thanks in advance!

TLDR; account locked out suddenly without any follow-up to my inquiries from customer service over 48+ hours. Sadly, I used to love DO for their balanced pricing, range of services, docs, online written material. I thought they were among the best of the best.

Long story short, I've had an account with them for roughly 5+ years as I recall, good credit card on file, monthly bill around $20-50, US address. I use a few droplets to run dokku/docker containers for dev and 1 private Google Outline VPN endpoint, only for me. I only ssh into these from non-root and root should be turned off completely (but I'm only a hacker and not a F/T systems person).

Not sure if it matters but I don't do anything nefarious on these droplets-- no webscraping, no botnet creation, no crypto mining. I don't know what else would be considered verboten!?!

Try to log in with github, won't work and asks for email login. Try to login from there, and it asks for credit card info for "authorization" although the card is the one on file and being charged for so many years.

No recourse, and what a crappy way to treat clients even if they are small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Thankfully I am building a new MVP all on AWS and have my company prod there too running for 5 years. So I don't have to put up with unprofessional dealings and major risks of service interruption.

Assume through no fault of your own that you could be shut out of everything. You have been warned.