I am a consultant in computer security and Risk.

I just applied to a medium sized company with around 18,000 employees.

I was the most invasive questionnaire I have seen.

Added to the usual race/gender/nationality/veteran/disability

Now there is sexual orientation with a long list of choices

And a new social mobility section.

Asking about parents schooling, social status, and income levels. If they were considered blue color, managerial, professional and a few others. Also if they/you qualified for public assistance growing up.

This is just getting nuts.

So sorry for you loss (of privacy).
It's bad out there, if it is ever to work for yourself > DO IT!

I can simplify it. Check one box below:

Democrat
or

Republican

All I need to know.

I would pen in N/A.

If I didnt want the job - pen in NOYFB!

What is "social mobility"?

I don’t think I would want to work somewhere that is that intrusive. Fuck them and fuck that kind of questionnaire. That is none of their damn business and they damned well know it.

They are actually doing you a favor by letting you know what their corporate culture is like before you've wasted any more of your time.

Did you have to interview with the CDO (Chief Diversity Officer) ? I'm sure they have one.

I thought it was illegal to ask that stuff...? Or at least not discuss it in interviews?

It should be. That only opens the door for potential discrimination.

Sounds like a real outlier. I have been applying to many companies lately and haven't seen anything like that.

quote:

there is sexual orientation with a long list of choices

Check the box that says "All of the above."

quote:

Originally posted by CoolRich59:
They are actually doing you a favor by letting you know what their corporate culture is like before you've wasted any more of your time.

This !

The gov't. is allowed to ask lots of questions no one else would be allowed to ask. Basically, anything that can be considered a protected class can be asked on a job application with the excuse that it's for gov't. compliance. A lot of that info can be used against you, obviously not admitted to by the company, but the gov't. makes it all possible. They sure do look out for us all.

I hope you aren't so desperate for work that you would even consider applying for this job.

Notice the questions now circle around anything and everything 'but' those skills and abilities that would contribute to how well you could accomplish the actual job. Wonder why virtually every other country in the world is kicking our ass?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, there is no bigger waste of company funding and floor space than HR departments. They're manned by liberal morons who have no clue what the company they work for actually does, nor do they have any interest in learning. If you eliminated HR departments in their entirety and simply flipped a coin or rolled some dice to select applicants you'd be no worse off while saving 10's if not 100's of thousands of dollars a year.

Sounds like a presecurity type questionnaire.

Is it possible the position requires a DoD clearance, Clarence?

No
Fucking
Way

That's some crazy shit, even for a tech job.

I'm sorry you're being confronted with this obscene insane crap.

Yet another reason I'm thankful for having retired 14 years ago.

If I was being asked this I'm quite certain my response would mightly offend these snowflake princes and princesses. That is if I stuck around long enough to even bother with their questionaire other that to write where they could put it before leaving.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
It should be. That only opens the door for potential discrimination.

Wait, you don't understand. Discrimination is OK if it is for the right reasons.

I'd fill out the normal questions (name, address, phone, qualifications, experience, training) and leave the rest of the shit blank.
But then, you have to ask yourself, do you really want to work for a company that would ask such questions?