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

I hope we'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'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's recent blog post, and thinking more on this reply. In these cases, the interviews involved at least one marginalized person.

Those interviews were collaborative and representative of my day-to-day, every time. https://twitter.com/SilvestriCodes/status/1292859293440540672?s=20