When we get nit-picky during technical interviews and reject viable candidates, we perpetuate the gatekeeping culture in tech.

I hope we& #39;re bringing that same nit-picky energy to our day-to-day work. Slightly less efficient but still perfectly viable solution in the PR? Fired.

If we& #39;ve never been judged for taking a few minutes longer to come up with a solution, or needing to ask clarifying questions to button up an idea, but we turn around and reject a candidate because they struggled to explain the last ~20% of a solution, that makes us hypocrites.

The "we" here, btw, is White men in tech. I have never been asked to speed anything up, nor have I ever received feedback that my technical solutions could be more complex or smarter or some other gatekeep-y metric.

Marginalized folx tho? The examples are depressingly abundant.

This thread inspired by Laurie& #39;s recent blog post, and thinking more on this reply. In these cases, the interviews involved at least one marginalized person.

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