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Asking for father's name is pretty much India's equivalent of Americans asking "what's your current salary", you use it to judge the person's situation.
by hkai 7y ago
Asking for father's name is pretty much India's equivalent of Americans asking "what's your current salary", you use it to judge the person's situation.
- fludlight 7y agoHow does that work?
- truncate 7y agoI don't see how. Last name is same usually for both father/son, and you can't figure anything out from first name. It's almost useless information I think, except maybe differentiate between two people with same name, which is useful only for government applications I think.
- the_gastropod 7y agoIn some parts of India, first names can be very lengthy, and contain lots of information, like: where you're from, your father's name, your grandfather's name, etc.
- truncate 7y agoWow, I'm an Indian, and I didn't know that. But yeah, I still dunno what can be potential use of that information in a resume. Sometimes, I think it's just because of old traditions where people introduce someone as "X son of Y from Z".
- sambroner 7y agoWow. Can you share more about this? Is it due to names being stratified by income/background? Without knowing more, this seems both easy to cheat and biased towards... people with father's with certain names?
- the_gastropod 7y agoAnd asking "what's your current salary?" is pretty sleazy and in many cases illegal (e.g., in New York)