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It stands for “emotional quotient” and they ask you a bunch of questions about diversity, feminism... They watch your responses for tone and vocabulary and can veto your hire if they deem you insufficiently enthusiastic. The motto is: “eq > iq”. You can imagine why MS might not be keen on this.

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This sounds kinda scary. I don't want to have a racist or a misogynist in my team or company but this seems to go way too far.

I think this person is trying to make it sound scary.

Interview responses are monitored for tone and vocabulary everywhere. Insufficient enthusiasm is often a valid reason not to hire someone. It is appropriate to ask questions about diversity and feminism during an interview—those are core values of the company, the first bullet point on their Careers page, even. https://github.com/about/careers

> It stands for “emotional quotient” and they ask you a bunch of questions about diversity, feminism...

Are you saying github is asking questions about diversity and feminism in their hiring process or that an eq test has these questions ?

Because political opinions have nothing to do with eq testing (see http://myframeworks.org/testmyeq/).

Yes they ask about diversity and feminism and call that eq. As another poster linked, you can see that’s their #1 cultural bullet point: https://github.com/about/careers

So they basically give a political Voigt-Kampff test as part of their interview process?

Diversity and equal rights are politicized right now, but that does not mean it has anything to do with political alignment or affiliation.

Holy shit?

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