Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia...
by BookmarkSaver on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:48PM
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>The quiz was pretty easy middle school math that would take 15 minutes to complete.
Racist, discriminatory, or whatever you might think this would be, I cannot imagine being any type of manager in any type of corporation and wanting to hire someone above retail clerk-level who could not pass such a test. I just wouldn't want any company business passing through the judgement and perception of someone that never learned mathematical reasoning beyond single-variable algebra, even if it seems like math abilities are irrelevant to the position. Innumeracy might be less of a big deal than illiteracy, but it is still a fundamental gap.
If it was being pushed on international hires, it could have just been a trivial check against unreliable international standards and qualification reporting or something.
Racist, discriminatory, or whatever you might think this would be, I cannot imagine being any type of manager in any type of corporation and wanting to hire someone above retail clerk-level who could not pass such a test. I just wouldn't want any company business passing through the judgement and perception of someone that never learned mathematical reasoning beyond single-variable algebra, even if it seems like math abilities are irrelevant to the position. Innumeracy might be less of a big deal than illiteracy, but it is still a fundamental gap.
If it was being pushed on international hires, it could have just been a trivial check against unreliable international standards and qualification reporting or something.