Seems pretty obvious to me that they were rejected earlier in the day. The rejection triggered 2 batch jobs: One to gather applicant demographics and one to notify of their status. The timing was unfortunate, but almost certainly a pure coincidence.
Really? Palantir is a real time geoanalytics platform. Among their customers are police departments, municipal governments, emergency response agencies, and, well, intelligence agencies. None of these are intrinsically bad.
There is absolutely zero chance that he was rejected in 30s based on ethnicity. No matter how unethical you might think a corporation might be, none would be stupid enough to implement a policy so obviously illegal.
Having some undesirable demographics myself, I'm quite aware that corporations discriminate illegally. It's so easy to hide, though, and so costly not to do so, that imagining this as an example seems a bit silly.
Of course that was the reason he was rejected. Companies do plenty of stupid and/or illegal things, they just think they can get away with it. Just look at Theranos. Or banks wilfully working with drug dealers to launder money. Or Google and co making agreements not to steal people to keep wages down. It's all about risk management.
No. The demo survey is the last piece of the application process. Once completed your application was finalized, processed, and the rejection email is sent.
If they ask the demo questions before interview it is likely to lead into accusations of bias.
Now, if pushed to court, they will have paper to backup that you were rejected at stage X, before the demo survey was sent.
Consider yourself very lucky. They dragged me through a month worth of interviews and wasted so much of my time. I wish they would have rejected me aftet 30 seconds.
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Having some undesirable demographics myself, I'm quite aware that corporations discriminate illegally. It's so easy to hide, though, and so costly not to do so, that imagining this as an example seems a bit silly.
Although, I am hugely cynical and always "decline to identify" whenever I'm asked.
If they ask the demo questions before interview it is likely to lead into accusations of bias.
Now, if pushed to court, they will have paper to backup that you were rejected at stage X, before the demo survey was sent.