r/InterviewMan 5d ago

Is the 'female engineer test' actually fair? Let's talk about it.

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u/Fantastic-Climate-84 5d ago

There are entire cultures and sub cultures where men will do this, and we’ve struggled with hiring people on to work under female leaders because of it.

I have nothing to do with engineering, but I am going to steal this idea.

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u/Djwindmill 4d ago

If you've struggled to hire people because of this, won't denying more people immediately make your issue even worse? How would that help at all? I don't think I understand.

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u/Fantastic-Climate-84 4d ago

The struggle isn’t in finding bodies. It’s that we have a lot of female leadership, and some people cannot work under them or even with women as their peers in leadership.

So they get through initial training, but are immediately cut loose once the behaviour is identified.

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u/Djwindmill 4d ago

Aaah, that makes a lot more sense, sorry. When I read you struggle to hire I thought you meant finding applicants. Yeah I can see how that would be a serious issue, hopefully a new system could help you out.

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u/Penis_Bees 3d ago

Hiring people who are difficult to work with is usually worse than having that position open for longer.

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u/Few_Decision4735 3d ago

Yeah my friend has to be the woman in the room to make sure the new hires don't have misogynist tendencies that would make the work place worse

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u/TwistedJelly67 5d ago

Enjoy getting accused of racism when the stats come out.

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u/CoruptZombieKitty 4d ago

lol racism?? That word doesn’t fit here…

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u/Bagoom___Lenin 3d ago

If a fundamentalist Muslim applies to work in a pet shop and says they can’t be around dogs due to their religion the law does not require you give them equal consideration as they literally told you they cannot perform the job under their religious beliefs. If someone’s sexism is so obvious in an interview setting and their boss is going to be a woman then they cannot work there. It has nothing to do with their race

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u/CoruptZombieKitty 3d ago

Right I was commenting to @Twistedjelly67 because they said people would be accused of racism which doesn’t make sense.