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Please consider working on yourself to eliminate any kind of biases including this and treat all candidates independently from each other

• __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
  Your job, as an interviewer, is to be biased against candidates that will not help your company meet its goals. I don't know enough about FAANGs to say whether they cause enough lasting damage to their employees such that they should considered a red flag on a resume--but I don't think that there's anything wrong with that kind of reasoning. Personally, I feel that way about defense contractors. If you're content with moving at the speed of red tape, then you're going to be at a slight disadvantage when it comes to convincing me to hire you.
  • roland35 4y ago
    I think that may be fair to bring up in an interview but I don't think it's fair to be biased against a candidate. What you see as red tape may be important safety and quality steps in that industry. A good engineer should be able to recognize what process is good for what product! It's important to check our biases because even filtering out based on industry makes your candidate pool less diverse (age, experience, gender, etc) and leads to the tech monoculture which at least I don't think is a positive thing.
    • __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
      If it turns out to be useful red tape and not just justification for corruption then there's no problem. But the fact that you're going into an interview with a todo-item for finding out, and you wouldn't for a different candidate... That's a bias, but it's not a problem.
• voakbasda 4y ago
  No, thanks. It is a useful signal to help make these kinds of decisions. Collectively, these people made the personal choice to work at these sorts of companies. No one forced them down that road. Given that these companies have been known to all act poorly for many years, their employment demonstrates a troubling deficiency in either their ethical or cognitive abilities, because they either didn’t care or didn’t see that their decision both endorses and embiggens these modern embodiments of corporate evil.
  • marcinzm 4y ago
    If your criteria is excluding companies that have acted unethically then you're going to be left with very few companies.
  • id00 4y ago
    > their employment demonstrates a troubling deficiency in either their ethical or cognitive abilities Like Guido van Rossum, John Carmack, Rob Pike and many others... Thank you, I would rather work with people like them than like your kind of SJWs