Do you feel differently interviewing women?
Honest question for male interviewers. Do you feel different about a candidate if it's a female vs a male? Why? How do you find that they interview differently?
I pay special attention to not be intimidating. Other than that, it’s the same. I spend most of my attention in non emotional mode. I just follow my script. Of course, if she’s dressed in a provocative way or if she’s drop-dead cute (never happened to me in this context), I would probably have tendency to distraction. I’m actually wondering why they don’t mention how to handle that situation in our training 🤔.
Distracting in a good way or a bad way? (Haha, jk... Mostly). I think women in tech are typically much more concerned with what they wear in order to come off as competent. I feel like provocative dress would be a cheap shot.
Generally no, just keep it friendly and professional
Google should have some trainings for removing unconscious bias. No sarcasm intended.
No. All my recent hires have been women. I'm a guy. I optimize for skills and fit to the job. Whether they have kitty (seriously the p word is banned here??) is not relevant.
Everything must be censored 😉
Nope. Though, there has been once or twice where I've noticed I'm interviewing a female and the whole rest of the loop is female too.
No, I just go out of the way to make sure I'm not interrupting
Usually women candidates try to drive consensus with the interviewer rather than think critically and lay out approaches and analyses which the top men candidates usually do. This is sad really, because it appears as though they’re trying to extract hints and validate that their approach is “correct” before proceeding. That gives em lower credibility.
When they wear low cut tops it’s a loose loose deal.
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Lol - it’s like if you are caught seeing you are dead , the focus on interview and questions is lost and the focus is on how to not see the cleavage