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It was 2018, and Leon Campbell was worried about getting a job. 

The Hunter College grad, now 25, had a degree in computer science, but had never been employed anywhere before. Campbell, who has autism, wondered how he’d do as an employee, or whether he’d make a mistake and be penalized for it. 

Thanks to Hunter’s accessibilities job program, though, he heard about a startup called Daivergent, whose aim is to connect companies with a remote tech workforce of folks on the autism spectrum. 

For the last two years, Campbell’s been a quality assurance specialist, making sure that…