On Monday, former Pinterest COO Francoise Brougher announced she had settled her gender discrimination lawsuit for $22.5 million.
But she told Business Insider in an interview shortly before the settlement that Silbermann talked with her for six months before finalizing her job offer."They were very thorough in my assessment," she said. In addition to giving her some standardized skills and personality assessment tests. "I talked for eight hours to an evaluator that has a psychology background to understand who I was as a person.
Initially, she felt they "loved" her style. Brougher had made a name for herself in tech for her eight years at Google as a vice president of global SMB ad sales, a $15 billion unit, and then a business lead at Square, with jobs at Charles Schwab and Booz, Allen before that. Her ethos was all about about efficiency and getting things done.
But soon she observed some of the longtime employees beginning to resent the idea of processes instead of meetings because they couldn't just go in to see Silbermann to lobby him for their projects.
Determined then to go public, with her kids well-armed for the potential fallout, she faced two more problems.
Is it really that wrong tho? How can a company ethically assess if the candidate has a skill that they are looking for such as detail oriented or problem solving skills? Besides just believed when they put it in their resume