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The bar for all candidates at a non-Google company: Pass your first interview. The bar for white male candidates at Google: Pass your first interview. The bar
by moduspol 9y ago
The bar for all candidates at a non-Google company: Pass your first interview.
The bar for white male candidates at Google: Pass your first interview.
The bar for minority candidates at Google: Pass your first or second interview.
Of course it lowers the bar for hiring. Maybe it's justified, but it's certainly not raising it. It's not keeping it the same. Maybe it's still tougher to get hired as a minority candidate than as a white one, but that doesn't change what the policy does.
- cbanek 9y agoGoogle seems to track which candidates, even if you're white and male, have done well enough in the interview process where they think it's a false negative, and give you another interview after 12 months. It's not just minority hires that interview more than once at Google, so there's no bar lowering. There's just trying again, and everyone can try again. So really it's what you'd expect: The bar for all candidates at Google: Pass your interview.
- moduspol 9y agoJust some candidates get more attempts at that bar than others, systematically, as a result of explicit policy ensuring that’s the case. You can call it justified, leveling the playing field, or whatever else, but it’s still lowering the bar to getting hired.