Re:Bug squash: An underrated interview question
by lmz on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:18AM
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I thought the point of affirmative action was that being unfair is ok if it is to compensate for a prior unfairness.
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Re:Bug squash: An underrated interview question
by saagarjha on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @01:29PM
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We don’t typically do affirmative action by picking interview questions that make things harder for some candidates as opposed to others, though. We consider some questions to be easier for, say, men to answer (“tell me about a time you were asked to demonstrate leadership”) but we seek to remove that bias rather than asking questions that solely focus on things that can only be answered by those who experienced bias (e.g. “tell me about a time you experienced racism that affected your work” is not likely to be an interview question).