Mastodawn

(Moved To: @[email protected])Nov 14, 2023

Personality tests in job applications are a legalized form of discrimination against neurodivergent people.

Neia masks Nov 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.

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I've also noticed they want a lot of information about your high school experience just to get in the door, which is bizarre and smells vaguely like ageism.

And the same applications don't want to know anything about my projects in general.. only my python. Caring only about experience in the specific language they use makes me suspect an org that prioritizes interchangeability over ingenuity.