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Funny "strange/tragic" rather than "haha." Two stories. Heck, a bonus third. My teammate was calling a candidate who had submitted their resume. Teammate got t

Funny "strange/tragic" rather than "haha." Two stories. Heck, a bonus third. My teammate was calling a candidate who had submitted their resume. Teammate got their voicemail where the candidate drops the N-Word. To top it off, Teammate was African. Non-plused. Candidate frantically called back apologizing saying it was a joke voice message. A big nope from our side. A candidate comes in, brings their laptop for the shared screen coding section. Frantically clears all the Asian porn tabs while sharing. When we get to the questions for us part, he asks about the open travel policy and if that can be used to go to Thailand (no, open travel was to our other offices, all in the US). A bit cringy. Bonus round. Early in my interview experience. Candidate comes in and two of us are going through coding questions with her. Simple stuff. She is woefully not qualified. We reach out to our in-house recruiter (much more experienced than either of us) for help on ending the interview early. Co-interviewer and I step out and go to the kitchen to commiserate on the negative experience. After letting the candidate go, In-House-Recruiter comes over. "Man, I've never seen someone cry so hard at being told it wasn't going to work out." Queue us interviewers feeling gut punched and like total jerks, totally gap faced. In-House-Recruiter laughs and says just kidding, Candidate knew she wasn't qualified and was just interested in trying a dev interview as she was normally a project manager and was perfectly fine and smiling as she left. Man, got us good.

gammateam 8y ago
Was candidate culturally authorized to use the N-word? Whether it was appropriate or not in a work environment I can see that paragraph reading completely differently with more context. I actually had to re-read it 5 times at the “non-plussed” part, I just assumed the candidate was of African descent before reading the teammate was too. In which case the voicemail recording wouldnt have been a “flag” just not prepped for professional settings. Many people’s voicemail arent whether its a competitive or not. The combination would have resulted in smiles and nods for that almost distinctly American experience. But I guess it was just some suburban kid of non-African descent that really wanted to use the N-word.
- sethammons 8y ago
  It was a white kid with the hard "r" at the end, and not a jovial "ah" ending. My bad for being unclear, had just woken up and was typing from mobile.
  - gammateam 8y ago
    The real question is whether the EOCC would consider the candidate to have said something hateful in a work environment or whether they would consider the candidate disqualified on basis of race I should be a lawyer what am I doing

gammateam 8y ago

Was candidate culturally authorized to use the N-word? Whether it was appropriate or not in a work environment I can see that paragraph reading completely differently with more context. I actually had to re-read it 5 times at the “non-plussed” part, I just assumed the candidate was of African descent before reading the teammate was too. In which case the voicemail recording wouldnt have been a “flag” just not prepped for professional settings. Many people’s voicemail arent whether its a competitive or not. The combination would have resulted in smiles and nods for that almost distinctly American experience. But I guess it was just some suburban kid of non-African descent that really wanted to use the N-word.

sethammons 8y ago
It was a white kid with the hard "r" at the end, and not a jovial "ah" ending. My bad for being unclear, had just woken up and was typing from mobile.
- gammateam 8y ago
  The real question is whether the EOCC would consider the candidate to have said something hateful in a work environment or whether they would consider the candidate disqualified on basis of race I should be a lawyer what am I doing