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wow. Does ADA lawyer thing work with whiteboard interviews? I'm only half-sarcastic, I hate my handwriting and this makes whiteboard interviews double hard for

• samatman 4y ago
  Probably not, because the ADA criterion are actually reasonable, and long handwritten essays handily fail it. Basically, don't test for something which isn't a job criterion and excludes people based on ability. An absurd example would be asking programmers to lift a 20kg sack of flour onto their shoulder and carry it across a room: this is a legal and normal thing to ask if the job involves lifting things, do it for a desk job and you'll get sued eventually. Whiteboarding is an actual part of the job at many companies, I just let them know that words will probably be illegible and muddle through it. No software job calls for handwritten pages of text, it clearly discriminates on ability and it shouldn't be a part of hiring. Simple as.
• someweirdperson 4y ago
  I wanted to add a smart remark saying that once upon a time, in better times long gone, a long time before leetcode was invented, handwriting itself was used as a criterion to hire. Then the first hit on google was a paper from 2018 about how to hire based on handwriting.