ALT I give URM harder questions. Right or wrong? I work at a FAANG (not Amazon; not using my real email here for obvious reasons) and have been giving interviews for years (easily 100+). I'm an asian man. For junior hires such as interns/new grads, I will choose my questions based on the race and gender of the interviewee. If they are an asian or white man I will ask a very standard Leetcode medium (similar to number of islands) and if they are stuck, I will give them hints. I will also overlook bugs like not properly maintaining a visited set, etc. I do have some standard follow ups that I will ask but whether we get through these or not will not impact my decision, sometimes I just have kids who finish early and want to give them

ALT something to do. I've given many lean hire, strong hire to asian/white guys I've interviewed so far, even though a good percent are actually kind of borderline. If they are an international student from India/China, I will go very easy on them. If they are anything else, I will give a very difficult and open-ended hard question. I always say that I don't expect us to reach an optimal solution by the end to make them feel better but I do. I'm still always very friendly and civil. However, I give very few hints if any. Sometimes someone can surprise me and I will of course pass if they solve it. But otherwise, I give lean no hire or strong no hire to almost everyone else. If they are a semi- diverse (asian/white woman or hispanic male), I will maybe go with the easy style above, depending on whether I feel this person is a diversity hire or actually good, since many asian women are great coders too. If they are an obvious diversity hire

ALT If they are an obvious diversity hire (HBCU + Google STEP/Microsoft Explore/etc), my standards will be extremely high. I've never passed such a candidate. I consider this counter-acting the acts of affirmative action/diversity hire. They've stolen spots from asian/white men in the past therefore I will try to make it even. Honestly white men still have it pretty good, I'm not too worried about them, but I feel awful for young asian men knowing all the cards are stacked against them and they need to be 2x better to get the same job. The international students have it especially hard and even without leniency, they are all way better at Leetcode than domestic Americans anyway. What do you guys think. Is this racism or justice?