Re:Ask HN: How to deal with inexperienced interviewers?
by johnpython on Monday November 20, 2017 @04:25PM
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Wait, they honestly asked you about the education level of your siblings? This is the most SVesque thing I've heard all year.
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with inexperienced interviewers?
by muzani on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:10AM
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One of many questions. It was more like spouse, children, parents, siblings and then a table of age, job, education level. They made it look something like it's asking for emergency contacts.
I'm sure they asked pregnancy status too. Also I've heard some forms will even ask your spouse's race and religion.
Very personal questions are normal where I live, but there's no law that says I have to answer them.
Sometimes it's just the recruiting dept that's bad. I've interviewed with one company, where the recruiters were quite incompetent and insecure. Forms were extremely long, including personal things like t-shirt size and education level of siblings.
But the company was quite good. It was just a side effect of a rapidly growing company not hiring the right people for those slots. People who filled in those forms just treated it as another hurdle and the tech team still remains awesome.