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Couple of years ago I've excelled at a lead position interview, we've arrived at the part where I get to just spitball questions about their company, team and o
by woodpanel 3y ago
Couple of years ago I've excelled at a lead position interview, we've arrived at the part where I get to just spitball questions about their company, team and overall culture.
I just talked about how I think it is important for leaders to have an extra-fine antenna for the psychological well-being of your colleages when in a remote-first environment. The moment I uttered the word "psychological" it triggered the interviewer's DEI-driven buzzword thesaurus and he immediately started talking endlessly about their efforts for "Inclusivity" which of course stands for: if a non-straight, non-white, non-male candidate existed alongside me, they would've of course chosen him/her/... instead of me.
I know that this is what it meant because this were his exact words ;-) (which he confided in me thinking I would see statements like these as a good thing and not a massive red-flag)
Needless to say I declined.
- woodpanel 3y agoAww, I can't say I'm surprised that this text of mine (an open confession by a major european tech company to have racist employment standards) would be getting down-votes :-) Or of course that a link criticizing DEI would get flagged on HN. Shocker.
- thinkingemote 3y agoHN Guidelines suggest not going on about down votes btw "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." I agree though it's understandable if a bit sad that this submission gets flag killed. Better to stick to safer tech stuff unless there's a big story I guess! Personally I don't believe the hype of this "backlash". It smells manufactured.