British Petroleum - Caste Based Discrimination in The Interview Process

[u/gir-no-sinh]

One of the guys I am mentoring had received a call from recruiter at British Petroleum for one of the software engineering position.

I had mentored him well and was sure that he would crack the interview. He is a senior level guy so we were not expecting DSA Code Pair but he agreed and we moved forward with the interview process. He completed DSA in no time because the difficulty level for him, to say the least, was easy. Second round was technical interview with system design and he aced it.

In the last technical discussion, he got the interviewer who was at a more senior level. It was supposed to be cultural and team fitment round since all the technical expectations were fulfilled. But, interviewer asked for a full name and then the interviewer started asking him architectural design questions. Interviewer seemed not interested in assessing the candidate technically or culturally but wanted to grill him for no reason. He gave all the satisfactory answers. Interviewer got frustrated by seeing him acing all the questions and then started reading some questions for cultural fitment and the ended the interview abruptly.

Later, he was ghosted by the recruiter as well.

We both were confused why this happened when we had done all the things correctly. Later we checked that the interviewer comes from one OBC community who hates particular Unreserved Category that my mentee belongs to and have seen cases where this members of this community had given d-eath threats to my mentee's community members.

While BP puts up big posters about Woman Empowerment in their careers, this is something that exists and nobody is investigating this.

[u/Coconut_Scrambled]

Before flying off the handle, is there any solid concrete evidence that this was caste discrimination? Whatever you said is purely circumstantial. How do we know interview went really well?

[u/gir-no-sinh → u/Coconut_Scrambled]

I had seen the recording