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I'd quit such an interview. Those questions are going over the boundaries of a strictly professional relationship. The thing with low-experience, high-potential

by siva7 3y ago

I'd quit such an interview. Those questions are going over the boundaries of a strictly professional relationship. The thing with low-experience, high-potentials is that they may be bit more insecure than seniors and therefore might think that such questions are normal which they are not.

mmcgaha 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. I am not sure if there is a name for the tactic but I had two girl friends that probed like that early on in our relationships and both times it turned out to bite me during and after our relationships. It is almost a cult-like tactic to get into someone's head.
rqtwteye 3y ago
Exactly. You are joining a company, not a cult. Basically they are filtering for people who can speak the same jargon correctly. I have heard a lot of stories about people failing DEI questions during an interview because they didn't know the "correct" phrases to use.
- greesil 3y ago
  Who asks DEI questions? For engineering roles? As a sometimes hiring manager myself I'm genuinely curious.
  - networkchad 3y ago
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  - rqtwteye 3y ago
    The people I know were applying for roles at universities. Engineering and teaching. You basically have to memorize your response and not deviate from it or you may get in trouble.
    - greesil 3y ago
      That makes sense. It could be seen as a ideological filter, but I suspect it's just testing the candidate's survival skills. Same thing, I suppose.
- didntcheck 3y ago
  Unfortunately unsurprising. A lot of "DEI" and related topics seems to largely consist of upper-middle-class people flaunting their prestige dialect and reciting their pious knowledge of fashionable beliefs. Whether deliberate or not, it's ironically quite effective at filtering out people from less privileged backgrounds and insinuating moral inferiority in the process
toast0 3y ago
> The thing with low-experience, high-potentials is that they may be bit more insecure than seniors and therefore might think that such questions are normal which they are not. It's not about being insecure, it's that they are likely to lack the experience and knowledge about if those questions are normal. If you get those questions when you're going around on your first job interviews, and didn't get coaching on what should and shouldn't be asked/answered, you wouldn't know they were weird.

by siva7 3y ago

mmcgaha 3y ago

I couldn't agree more. I am not sure if there is a name for the tactic but I had two girl friends that probed like that early on in our relationships and both times it turned out to bite me during and after our relationships. It is almost a cult-like tactic to get into someone's head.

rqtwteye 3y ago

Exactly. You are joining a company, not a cult. Basically they are filtering for people who can speak the same jargon correctly. I have heard a lot of stories about people failing DEI questions during an interview because they didn't know the "correct" phrases to use.

greesil 3y ago
Who asks DEI questions? For engineering roles? As a sometimes hiring manager myself I'm genuinely curious.
- networkchad 3y ago
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- rqtwteye 3y ago
  The people I know were applying for roles at universities. Engineering and teaching. You basically have to memorize your response and not deviate from it or you may get in trouble.
  - greesil 3y ago
    That makes sense. It could be seen as a ideological filter, but I suspect it's just testing the candidate's survival skills. Same thing, I suppose.
didntcheck 3y ago
Unfortunately unsurprising. A lot of "DEI" and related topics seems to largely consist of upper-middle-class people flaunting their prestige dialect and reciting their pious knowledge of fashionable beliefs. Whether deliberate or not, it's ironically quite effective at filtering out people from less privileged backgrounds and insinuating moral inferiority in the process

toast0 3y ago

> The thing with low-experience, high-potentials is that they may be bit more insecure than seniors and therefore might think that such questions are normal which they are not. It's not about being insecure, it's that they are likely to lack the experience and knowledge about if those questions are normal. If you get those questions when you're going around on your first job interviews, and didn't get coaching on what should and shouldn't be asked/answered, you wouldn't know they were weird.