The first is my own experience of being turned down for a part-time engineering role because the company didn't think it was safe or good for me to travel so much. From where i stayed at that time, it would have taken me roughly 90 minutes to get there and another 90 minutes to get back if i got the job. To be fair to them, I honestly felt they were concerned for my well being.
The second is from a previous company I worked for and I was asked to temporarily join a hiring team that were bringing in new recruits (mostly uni grads) to evaluate their technical abilities. There was a really young candidate whom I felt stood out but he had a quirkiness of pulling out a sesame street soft toy from his bag and stroking it every time he faced a "challenging" question. I had absolutely no issues with that but HR apparently felt that was too weird for them.
The first one seemed pretty decent of them. It would have at least given me a warm feeling about not getting an offer based on concern for my well-being.
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I have two.
The first is my own experience of being turned down for a part-time engineering role because the company didn't think it was safe or good for me to travel so much. From where i stayed at that time, it would have taken me roughly 90 minutes to get there and another 90 minutes to get back if i got the job. To be fair to them, I honestly felt they were concerned for my well being.
The second is from a previous company I worked for and I was asked to temporarily join a hiring team that were bringing in new recruits (mostly uni grads) to evaluate their technical abilities. There was a really young candidate whom I felt stood out but he had a quirkiness of pulling out a sesame street soft toy from his bag and stroking it every time he faced a "challenging" question. I had absolutely no issues with that but HR apparently felt that was too weird for them.
That is definitely an interesting quirk.
The first one seemed pretty decent of them. It would have at least given me a warm feeling about not getting an offer based on concern for my well-being.