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Personality tests in job applications are a legalized form of discrimination against neurodivergent people.
Show threadNeia masksNov 14, 2023
@[email protected] To name and shame: I applied to Canonical and they had me take a test that was basically "are you dyslexic? If so, get the fuck out of here."

It was a programming job. Sure, there's a lot of text there, but I can use dyslexic friendly fonts. They made some excuse about it being a "spatial reasoning problem," but programmers don't get many problems like that in practice. If each of those took me ten times as long as normal, I'd be like 99.7% as effective at the job.
Show threadtimorl
@neia @ashten Canonical’s hiring system is a sad joke in general. My wife applied to them at a point when she was pretty desperate for a job and quite enthusiastic about working for free software, but as soon as she saw the hoops she was supposed to jump through to even be considered she noped right out. I have no idea what they even think they are trying to screen for…
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@timorl @neia It kinda strikes me that they're looking for someone who's willing to kiss ass, and sacrifice their time off the clock.