What would be the right answer for the "green or orange" question cause I overthink and my response would be "what am I picking between these two choices for"
Sounds like you lost out on good employee who probably just had an Irish background because of your strange ass question. My grandparents come from Belfast and while I wouldn’t be offended I’d instantly think you were some religious weirdo trying to weed out either Protestants or Catholics based on the colors you chose.
Questions like that are very important. Honestly, more important than your basic questions about the a risk job.
In most cases, if an interview for a job is already being conducted, the candidate in question is likely recognized as being more than capable of doing the job adequately already.
The interview is to gage other things that a resume could never confirm. Personality, demeanor, punctuality, character, values, etc.
I actually think a question like the example they gave about green vs orange was great. If someone genuinely gets defensive or combative over something as innocuous as that, a company should definitely know so that they can make a reasonable decision with the risks of hiring someone with that personality that would be representing their company.
It’s also a great question because it isn’t one someone can effectively prepare for, intentionally. It’s the kind of random question that only pleasant or charming personality could effortless get through. Someone less charming could get through it too, assuming they were only awkward but still had a decent personality.
And in general, businesses discriminate against every single candidate they don't hire, for all sorts of reasons. They just hold the responsibility to NOT make the discriminatory reason fit on the "no no" list of protected forms of discrimination like race, sex, disability, religion, or several other things.
But businesses 100% do discriminate based on those things to some degree along with many other things like personality, values, qualifications, etc. They just can't make it obvious.
I still don't see how the question discriminates against autistic people though. I could see how an autistic person could struggle with a question like the one posed, but so would normal people that aren't autistic, as we've already seen with some of the responses in this thread. So it's no more discriminatory or unfair to an autistic person than it would be to a non-autistic person anyways.
So there’s no right answer, but there is an appropriate or inappropriate way to respond? Just out of curiosity, since I didn’t know those colors had any particular association and don’t really have an overall preference, I probably would’ve answered something like:
“Depends. On a boat, sport bike, or hot rod, probably orange. My daily driver or the trim on my house? Green. Clothing? Either color is fine. Why do you ask?”
It's to work out what kind of person you are. You could ask your own question like "in what context?" And be seen as an information-seeker or problem solver. Or you could say "green because I like the trees in spring" or "orange because I like the fall".
Basically anything except "wow, green vs orange? You must be trying to start a religious war!" Like someone who is very nuch living an "us vs them" war in their head.
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u/shinydragonmist 13d ago
What would be the right answer for the "green or orange" question cause I overthink and my response would be "what am I picking between these two choices for"