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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by anticensorship on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:05AM (#22340653)
[Thinking to themselves:] "Is this serf really the right kind of drone, the type who will fit neatly--much like an unthinking cog--into our organizational machinery?"

Maybe he accidentally let it slip that he thought the South should have won and Robert E. Lee had some good ideas.

Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by rumanator on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:48AM (#22340976)
Yeah, they do weed out racists and misogynists and people who in general have a problem with minorities even if they can traverse a graph like a champ, but as far as I know the main reason why someone is rejected after passing the online test and phone screening is having serious problems with their personality and soft skills that, as a whole, render the candidate unable to improve to an acceptable level and thus are unsalvageable.