I once interviewed with a cast and two different YC start-ups gave me speed coding problems. One even made me type with their laptop versus a split keyboard I had where I could actually reach all the keys. They used completion time as a metric even though I asked for an accommodation and it was obvious as I typed in front of them that the cast was major drag on me.
Pretend your colleague had a cast and couldn’t type for a few weeks. Is that person going to get put on the time-sensitive demo where 10k SLOC need to be written this week? Or the design / PoC project that much less SLOC but nobody knows if it will work? Or the process improvement projects that require a bunch of data mining, analysis, and presentation?
It’s not hard to find ways to not discriminate against disabilities on short notice. The problem is, at least in my experience with these YC start-ups who did not, there’s so much naïveté combined with self-righteousness that they’d rather just bulldoze through candidates like every other problem they have.
Pretend your colleague had a cast and couldn’t type for a few weeks. Is that person going to get put on the time-sensitive demo where 10k SLOC need to be written this week? Or the design / PoC project that much less SLOC but nobody knows if it will work? Or the process improvement projects that require a bunch of data mining, analysis, and presentation?
It’s not hard to find ways to not discriminate against disabilities on short notice. The problem is, at least in my experience with these YC start-ups who did not, there’s so much naïveté combined with self-righteousness that they’d rather just bulldoze through candidates like every other problem they have.