“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop”

Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by djur on Sunday June 07, 2015 @07:46PM (#9676744)

Interviewers are generally not allowed to ask you about your political positions or take them into account in any way. Frankly, talking about one's politics at an interview for an apolitical position would be so inappropriate as to reasonably raise concerns about the interviewee's impulse control and judgment.

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Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by fixermark on Sunday June 07, 2015 @10:47PM (#9677171)

Clarification (at least from a USA perspective): Interviewers are not generally banned from asking about your political affiliation. In many states, there are protections against discrimination based upon political leanings, but they are not implemented across the board nationally.*

As a good rule of thumb: if you really want the job, do not volunteer potential employers anything about yourself that you don't think would help you get hired. They aren't cops or courts; depending on how laws are crafted state-to-state, they are legally allowed to consider some categories of information that they aren't legally allowed to ask you outright if you volunteer it.

*There are protections in place for the bureaucracy itself, but they were implemented for practical reasons early in the country's history when it was observed that a party change leading to a clean sweep of the federal government right down to the last front-desk agent regardless of their capabilities in the task at hand was highly inefficient.

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Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by djur on Monday June 08, 2015 @10:49AM (#9679408)

I meant most interviewers are forbidden from discussing it by company policy, even if it isn't forbidden by law. My state doesn't ban asking about political positions in interviews, but I know I'd be canned if I ever asked an interviewee about that.

Agreed on everything else.

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