Guy from China logged into a video tech interview. Fully nude, only wearing sunglasses, and behind him a huge swastika. That was an instant disconnect for me and a rejection email to the candidate.
Edit for concerned folks: it was a Nazi swastika. Red flag, black tilted swastika.
The naked thing, sure, weird, but maybe the camera was on by accident.
The swastika is used in some countries as a religious symbol, among other things. Tourist maps in Japan when I was last there still used it to represent temple locations.
In India, one of the first things that a Hindu priest does as part of religious rituals is draw Swastika. I’m not a religious person but had to perform house warming ceremony to keep my immediate family happy. My house still has like half a dozen swastika drawn by a priest a decade ago.
Clearly no excuse for being naked with sunglasses, but you should know that the swastika is not a universally bad symbol.
In India you'll see the symbol plastered all around in front of people's home, rickshaws (taxis), and on buildings. Nazis repurposed it for their use but its roots stem from East Asia.
I once got into trouble and had to see the principal in 2nd grade for drawing the swastika while bored in class. It sucks that the Western world is largely ignorant of its positive roots and usage.
I've interviewed about 60 people in the past two months:
1. Interview went really great, no question we were going to hire this guy. Interview is basically over and he closes the application he was presenting with and his desktop background is hardcore porn.
2. Girl reaches up to scratch her head, boob falls out of her shirt.
3. Guy talked nearly the entire time, I had to interrupt him just to get a couple questions in.
4. Person told me they don't really want the job, they're just interviewing for interviewing experience.
5. A long time ago and I was being interviewed for a job. The guy tells me the closest parking spot to the front door is reserved for the employee of the month, and the employee of the month gets to drive the convertible mercedes in that spot for the whole month. "Do you know what that means?" He asked me. "PUSSY!!! And everybody loves pusssssssssssssssy!!!"
Oh my god, I can’t express enough how stupid 4) is. I interviewed so many amazing people I wanted to hire on the spot, instead they tell me they consider this as an exercise. What a waste of my time as well.
bnt|4 years ago
Edit for concerned folks: it was a Nazi swastika. Red flag, black tilted swastika.
tass|4 years ago
The swastika is used in some countries as a religious symbol, among other things. Tourist maps in Japan when I was last there still used it to represent temple locations.
Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society
vishnugupta|4 years ago
Though I’ve never seen tilted one.
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sahila|4 years ago
In India you'll see the symbol plastered all around in front of people's home, rickshaws (taxis), and on buildings. Nazis repurposed it for their use but its roots stem from East Asia.
I once got into trouble and had to see the principal in 2nd grade for drawing the swastika while bored in class. It sucks that the Western world is largely ignorant of its positive roots and usage.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
bonestamp2|4 years ago
1. Interview went really great, no question we were going to hire this guy. Interview is basically over and he closes the application he was presenting with and his desktop background is hardcore porn.
2. Girl reaches up to scratch her head, boob falls out of her shirt.
3. Guy talked nearly the entire time, I had to interrupt him just to get a couple questions in.
4. Person told me they don't really want the job, they're just interviewing for interviewing experience.
5. A long time ago and I was being interviewed for a job. The guy tells me the closest parking spot to the front door is reserved for the employee of the month, and the employee of the month gets to drive the convertible mercedes in that spot for the whole month. "Do you know what that means?" He asked me. "PUSSY!!! And everybody loves pusssssssssssssssy!!!"
bnt|4 years ago