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Also see the recent "anti-DEI" backlash.
I tried to get hired at an "anti-DEI" company pre-pandemic, for an intern position. They asked my brother if I had "unexplainable" fits of rage that would lead to destroyed equipment and bitten coworkers. Then in the second round they asked if I knew how much is 2 + 2, in a joking manner. Finally they instead tried to hire those who actually cheated the entry tests (they had to be let go), they had the best luck with reeducating a Javascript dev into a Java one. All because they though all disability that isn't coming from amputation is "severe intellectual disability", because joke made at the expense of the intellectually disabled.
And what was the severe intellectual disability that got you this treatment?
Autism. Did not tell them, but they found out.
I feel your pain, that absolutely sucks.
But I also feel Schadenfreude for the company: refusing to hire a dev because they are autistic is just hilariously incompetent HR.
If you exclude autists, ADHD, trans people and furries, the only thing that has a severe disability is your company's IT skills hahaha
Make Computers Great Again
I am so sorry that happened, people can be really mean to us autistic folk for no good reason
Because people like this are fragile as fuck and can’t handle seeing anything other than their inflexible conception of how the world works
Fucking worthless trashcans, all that effort and hate to justify not hiring someone they clearly didn't deserve.
How did they "found out" about that? But I'm sorry that sucks :/ Although I wonder why you'd want to apply at such a company
They noticed my "odd behavior".
DEI or die in action again.