For those who think that there is a skills shortage, let me tell you about my Google job interview

[TheKentuckian]

82. What is racist in the statement? A bit dated with a touch of McCarthy flavor? Ok

Racist? I don't get that.

The speakerphone part of it is a tough row to hoe and you know it. How hard is it to understand someone speaking your native language from your local region on a speakerphone? Might be okay sometimes but it usually blows then you exacerbate that by the expected barriers that very different dialects, emphasis, inflections, and if there is limited fluency as well, it will be hard to communicate such complex information, hastily jotted down on the spot of the top of the head, under such conditions.

Maybe that was part of the "test" and fair enough if the "test" has real world application to the job and I'm going to lean it doesn't but even IF it was even to the point of being job critical, it wasn't racist and it would be challenging to most people, especially if they only speak their native language.

I'm pretty comfortable guessing someone from the interviewer's home town with the prerequisite skills might have similar problems, that the interviewer might well (and seemingly did) have significant difficulty communicating in such a fashion in such a subject, that the interviewee may well have similar problems with someone from his home town under the same circumstances, and I'll even go so far to propose that you might also have similar difficulty in an area of expertise under similar conditions. Your ear might be fine with Asian accents but probably is thrown by some kind some where. Put that shit on speakerphone when you are trying to get a job and you'll be singing a different tune.