I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Unbxd (Bengaluru)
Interview
All my initial tech rounds were positive and amicable which were done by women. I felt so secure and joyous till I got my last round with hiring manager. To my surprise, more than my tech skills and trying to grill there, he was more keen and interested to know whether I am married or not, Am I already having a baby and indirectly trying to know if I am going to plan for a baby!! It was very discomforting situation for me and I did not expect for that. The interview went for more than 2 hours non-stop without asking for lunch/food etc. And, I was in their office from morning till 4-4.30 PM. And, even till the end he was trying to ask questions and raising doubts, which were on basis of assumptions that - I am a woman and wouldn't be able to work for long hours and wont fit in a "start-up" environment. Whereas my profile and work history was sufficiently showing the complete opposite.
This incident had happened last year (2019) and I had forgotten about this treating this as just a bad experience. But, today when I was going through my current company's ethics and code of conduct, my eyes got opened and thought of sharing this to confidently say - "No, this not OK and its nothing to do with having just a bad day in interview".
I came to know that asking such questions and trying to make decisions based on these "discriminatory" criteria is unethical and violates code of conduct of a workplace. And, btw I have joined a start-up recently, which did not had any of these assumptions while hiring me and they have strong ethics and values which they also let its employees follow seriously. Fortunate enough that I did not end up in a wrong workplace and found my fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tree problem, search engine, rest of "other" questions explained above.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention & sharing your feedback. We’re sorry you had a bad experience. We completely agree with your point of not asking any personal related questions during an interview which is unethical & we strongly follow this as a process. This was an uncommon instance & we’ll look into this matter.
We promote gender diversity in the workplace, have more than 25% of women employees in our current workforce and one-third of our leadership team are women. We want to assure you that at Unbxd, we treat everyone equally and all our policies are gender neutral and are employee friendly, which helps our employees have a good work-life balance.
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