An Ohio woman has gone viral after revealing the shocking question her potential employer asked her, while calling it “a new level of job application hell.”
Salem Pierce, 30, a graphic designer, stunned Twitter last month when she posted a screenshot of an inappropriate question, as part of her application for a visual design lead position at an unnamed online company.
The job application asked: “How do you feel life has gone for you so far?” Please record a short video response of about 2-5 minutes and paste the link here.
“The new level of job applications just dropped,” she wrote on Twitter, along with the photo, which has been viewed more than 2.2 million times.
Salem Pearce, 30, a graphic designer, stunned Twitter when she shared a screenshot of a job application question that asked her to share how she feels. “Life has worked out for her so far.”
Several Twitter users were freaked out by the spam question and demanded a response to the video, saying it was “terrible” and a “real nightmare.”
Several commenters were dumbfounded by this sneaky question, calling it “terrible” and a “true nightmare.”
Both the question and the requirement to respond to the video cause an inner scream. If you try to do that, it will probably take two to five minutes of outside screaming,” someone wrote.
‘Hahahahahaha? Coming from the recruiter. I never will. What kind of work is it?’ another asked.
“Unfortunately sometimes the job application process itself is a red flag that says ‘don’t continue, this isn’t going to be a good place to work,'” another person pointed out.
A number of Twitter users were concerned that the video response was being used to discriminate against applicants.
I wonder where this came from in the interview process, but you don’t like this. I could see many ways this is an ostensibly harmless way of excluding people from a protected category under the guise of “decency”, “attitude” or “charisma”, one Twitter user responded.
I don’t trust this. Absolutely. Seems like a way to weed out people who aren’t neurotypical or white/skinny/skinny before they even get a chance to be interviewed,” another person agreed.
Commenters worried the video response was being used to discriminate against applicants, while others shared the obscene questions they were asked to get a job.
Another added, “I can’t think of a way this couldn’t be used for discrimination.”
The job app also inspired people to share the outrageous and immoral things they were asked during interviews.
One woman commented, “I was once asked in a job interview: ‘Most of my team is Jewish, are you Jewish?'” ”
I once applied for a job at Target, and one of the questions was what percentage of politicians I think are honest. I didn’t get the job, someone else said.
“Ha! My (land development) husband of 48 was asked if he had any reservations about working with younger co-workers “because the whole office is made up of young people,” recalls another.
Some couldn’t resist sharing how to respond to the hilarious question.
One Twitter user shared, “I’d turn the camera on all the way and record my crying for a full two minutes and then say ‘thank you’ and finish recording.”
“I’d drop my therapist an email and tell them she’d give them a Reader’s Digest,” another joked.
There were also plenty of commenters who insisted they wouldn’t respond at all, with one woman saying she “would rather have a colonoscopy.”
Some couldn’t resist sharing how they responded to the hilarious question, but others insisted it was a red flag that caused them to cancel their application.
However, despite the backlash, there were a few people who saw the question as an opportunity to discuss how their lives affected their careers.
‘this is interesting. I sometimes wish I had the opportunity to expand on my obstacles in life versus trying to make sense of things on my resume. For me, I think I’ll use this time to explain why my career path looks the way it does. But IDK what their end goal is here, one person said.
Another person explained, “I like this because it will give me an opportunity to explain circumstances that might seem less than desirable and compare them to my general attitudes towards things that might enhance my chance of choice.”
After Pierce’s tweet went viral, she opened up about looking for a job in an interview BuzzFeedsaying she has Unemployed for the past two years after quitting a “toxic job”.
She shared her journey with the search on Twitter, including her frustration with the process. She noted that she did not shoot a video or complete the application due to the many other “minor red flags” she noticed.
Many people worry about [question’s] Possibility of discrimination on the basis of race, gender or ability. “Others, myself included, don’t like how intrusive people with past traumas or from disadvantaged backgrounds can be,” she said of the app question.
Several people with backgrounds reported in HR said they’ve seen questions like this used to examine “victim mentality,” which is really sickening.
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