It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague.
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It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.
@hacks4pancakes will you hire him?
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It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.
@hacks4pancakes First thing, I'm so sorry you had to experience that. No matter the other person's objective, that still hurts.
I only know you from following you on socials, but I hope you are strong and this is something that we can all take just a moment to learn from. Please don't let this moment break your strength from all the good that you know. -
@hacks4pancakes
My first thought is, I have a kid on the spectrum who finds direct eye contact painful , but if they were able to do this with a male colleague that is probably not it. Next, I did work with someone from another country who became engaged and (believe it or not) his religion prohibited him from gazing at women for something like 30 days before the wedding. One of my coworkers asked him about it and he seemed embarassed explaining it.
Gotta go with your gut tho.@geos I can’t hire a consultant to meet with customers if he can’t look at or talk to women
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@hacks4pancakes will you hire him?
@malveus lol what, of course not
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@hacks4pancakes
Instant rejection right ?@Tijgertje1987 of course
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@hacks4pancakes I believe in being culturally sensitive - But that goes both ways!
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I realise it’s a cultural thing and I try to be culturally sensitive but I have plenty of global colleagues from very conservative backgrounds who can make compromises to work respectfully with a diverse team. It’s just too much.
@hacks4pancakes doesn't take a rocket scientist to know to address all parties as part of the conversation lol.
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It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.
@hacks4pancakes we once interviewed somebody who was visibly horrified to see us and wouldn't allow us to explain what coding problem we wanted him to solve, instead making a guess at what it was going to be and doing that
he of course did not get the job
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@geos I can’t hire a consultant to meet with customers if he can’t look at or talk to women
@hacks4pancakes @geos it's a skill issue, obviously.
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It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.
It doesn't matter how "cultural sensitive" you are. If the candidate is not able to treat all humans equally, that's his problem and he shouldn't be hired.
No matter how good he is. He's not a good team player. He's problematic.
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@FurryBeta yes but I managed to not just stop the interview like I wanted mid way. Immense self control
@hacks4pancakes props for that amount of self control!
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@hacks4pancakes we once interviewed somebody who was visibly horrified to see us and wouldn't allow us to explain what coding problem we wanted him to solve, instead making a guess at what it was going to be and doing that
he of course did not get the job
@ireneista Love your avatar!
You dodged a problem there. I hope the interview didn’t waste too much of your time.
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@ireneista Love your avatar!
You dodged a problem there. I hope the interview didn’t waste too much of your time.
@bernardlyons yeah we were able to schedule it near our desk, so not a big deal time-wise. thanks
the avatar's by https://www.crouserart.com/ - we own a print of it, and we figure the least we can do is link when people mention it
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It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.
@hacks4pancakes I’m so sorry. This isn’t cultural it’s just wrong. And if it is the culture then the culture is wrong.
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It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.
Maybe he could've learned something. Tell him right there why the interview's done and he didn't get the job.
Unrelated... I was at the hardware store once looking for something. A female employee asked if I needed help, and I know my face showed "Uh oh, this is pointless". She knew exactly where the part was.
Felt bad afterward. My hesitance was due to employees generally being useless, and I didn't want a search partner, not her sex, but I bet that exactly how she read it
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I realise it’s a cultural thing and I try to be culturally sensitive but I have plenty of global colleagues from very conservative backgrounds who can make compromises to work respectfully with a diverse team. It’s just too much.
@hacks4pancakes when i was 17, i tried to talk to an irish girl once, but she was so beautiful that my mouth just refused to cooperate. Could not speak. Nothing. I'm pretty sure my mouth moved a couple times without any sounds coming out.
Soooo... What I'm saying is, this is almost certainly not what happened to that guy in your interview, but.. Who knows?
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It finally happened, I interviewed a candidate who would not look at me the entire interview, and answered my questions directly to my male colleague. Who isn’t a DFIR person.
@hacks4pancakes I once interviewed the CEO of a major Asian tech manufacturer after a speech he gave, and he answered someone standing next to me, a man who wasn't a journalist. I'd ask a question, he answered the man, and so it went. The CEO did not look at me once.
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@hacks4pancakes I once interviewed the CEO of a major Asian tech manufacturer after a speech he gave, and he answered someone standing next to me, a man who wasn't a journalist. I'd ask a question, he answered the man, and so it went. The CEO did not look at me once.
@metacurity @hacks4pancakes
Longtime friend of mine, PhD engineer, overachiever — former astronaut corps (she never flew b/c Challenger), Arthur Andersen consultant — started a robotics company (one of many companies she founded) that specialized in "force feedback" (she contributed to the robotic arm on the space shuttle). She was so frustrated by the chauvinism she encountered during Asian business trips (*after* hiring a male partner to accompany her on those trips) that she sold her stake.
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@metacurity @hacks4pancakes
Longtime friend of mine, PhD engineer, overachiever — former astronaut corps (she never flew b/c Challenger), Arthur Andersen consultant — started a robotics company (one of many companies she founded) that specialized in "force feedback" (she contributed to the robotic arm on the space shuttle). She was so frustrated by the chauvinism she encountered during Asian business trips (*after* hiring a male partner to accompany her on those trips) that she sold her stake.@RunRichRun @hacks4pancakes So dispiriting.
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@RunRichRun @hacks4pancakes So dispiriting.
@metacurity @hacks4pancakes
Sorry to see that decades later it appears not to have changed all that much.
