Have you ever set up an interviewee to fail?
Or seen it happen? Both at Tableau and other companies Ive been at the past I have witnessed engineers put certain candidates under impossible standards. It doesnt take long to pick up patterns on which groups single out others. I personally believe there is too much room for bias when interviewers choose the own questions.
Ain't nobody have time for that
Yes at MSFT. Interviewer was in the same demographic group as me.
I wonder if intent was less about setting someone up to fail as opposed to rigging the system so that one a certain person or persons succeeds ...in either case the result is the same, but I do believe the framing is important if you're trying to fix it (and you should)
Wait what?
Care to elaborate?
Yes so what Im speaking on is based on my accounts of candidates I thought were really strong or referrals Ive given to friends and hearing about their experiences. I personally have never felt any discrimination within interviews but I am an American born Korean Christian. Ive particularly noticed certain trends amongst minorities. An example being Hindu team members and Muslim candidates. Of course I am not trying to make any sweeping claims but generally there seems to be a pattern. Ive done many phone screens and onsite interviews and am also familiar with what questions my colleagues are asking as well. There has been practically a 0% success rate of candidates from certain demographics despite when I interviewed them they seemed perfectly fine. Another example Ive seen is when I had referred two different friends with practically the same resumes to the same team and they had much different interviews from the same people. I mostly wanted to start a discussion with this post to see if anyone has observed things similar to this, as I am just now becoming aware.
I've seen people give experience interviews to roles that should've been potential hires. Not at FB, but elsewhere. So this scenario isn't surprising. I've also seen people become hostile during trials out of insecurity.
I did an internal loop at Microsoft. Generally for internal loop there are three interviews. I passed all three. Then the manager scheduled 4th. I did well again. Then he scheduled one with himself and asked leetcode hard. I was still working on problem when he left the room mid interview and never communicated again.
Lol. Was he same demographic or different. What did you tell HR?
Wow
Dozens of time. Often you feel it's personal with the interviewer for whatever reasons - his hangover, your role, your dress, your nationality, his ego multiplied by miniature penis. It's just part of life and I suggest not to stress too much about because life is short, there is one copy of you and thousands of unpleasant people.
What is the purpose of that?
Some might not agree with the notion that more hires are needed and/ or feel threatened by a specific hire and worry about how they’ll look comparatively
Mostly racism