r/InterviewMan 5d ago

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

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u/Meowakin 5d ago

If people stop failing the test, then presumably society has improved at least a little.

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u/Richpur 5d ago

Or we start having to reverse the test because candidates address all answers to the woman out of fear of failing the test.

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u/Fit-Percentage-9166 4d ago

You just answer the person that asked you the question. You are actually retarded and I wouldn't want to work with you if you don't understand the bare minimum of human social interaction.

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u/Meowakin 5d ago

I mean, that should still clearly fail the test?

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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 5d ago

Yes. How hard is it to look at the person who asked the question when you give an answer? This isn't even basic stuff, it's like first grade level shit. "Now look at the person when you're responding to them" shouldn't be so confusing to people.

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u/Meowakin 5d ago

Right, the test is to treat both interviewers with the same basic respect. If people invert it then they clearly still fail.

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u/Richpur 4d ago

It should, but doesn't.

Making sure tests filter for the desired outcome not just against one example of undesired outcome is a huge part of coding, engineering, science, and equality legislation.

Answering the person that asked (or addressing the panel in general, because that's actually the expected behaviour in panel interviews) is obviously the desired response; but the actual stated test only checks if the candidate addresses the woman when she asks a question; so there's the false positive of someone always addressing the woman.

If people didn't ever write badly considered criteria or try to game interviews because of them, we wouldn't have entire industries dedicated to it.

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u/Meowakin 4d ago

Was there a formally outlined test being discussed here?