Interview Discrimination?
Final year undergrad here with visible vitiligo on my face.
Reached the final round of interview for an in-house consulting firm.
All interviews went really well.
Come with 4 months of internship experience, 2 of which are a niche but big consulting firm.
Somehow didn’t get selected.
A girl with less merit (on paper) and no consulting experience did.
Guesses are that the vitiligo was a dealbreaker.
A. Please be brutally honest, is it actually going to be a dealbreaker?
B. What could the reason for the other candidate being selected be? (Better interview performance, diversity hiring,etc.)
I think it has to do with the other candidate being a "her" So don't think too much into it and try for a better firm
Ngl left me quite upset, I was kinda the perfect fit.
But yeah let’s give the co. benefit of doubt, the other candidate must’ve performed better on the case study 🤷♂️
A. I don’t think it’s a dealbreaker. In fact a lot of companies like that diversity in their team.
B. The ‘on paper’ is literally just 40% of the entire interview process. The rest of it matters on interview performance, so reasons for the other candidate being selected would be:
-better interview performance
-better team/culture fit
-if it’s consulting, she may have done better problem solving in the interviews
-you were a red flag
-diversity hiring but if they wanted to hire a woman they probably wouldn’t waste time on you but it can always be a reason
If everything was dependent on merit on paper, there would be no one from non-IITs in top companies.
Thank you for the perspective :)
This has nothing to do with vitiligo. When competing against women for a job the odds of men getting selected at entry level is very less.
