A troubled tale
As an individual on the spectrum, I find it sometimes challenging to believe the employment I have secured is reliable given that coworkers have been known, on occasion, or when they are in a mood and I am insufficient to respond, to perceive I am hostile, uncaring, or emotionally withdrawn. In-person 8am interviews with panels of neurotypical individuals with high social skills and high social interactivity requirements are not the best time or place for the neurodiverse worker to shine. There is a reason we have earned the moniker 'robot'. So, when I read a thread on Hacker News about a New York based company that publicly claimed a 75% neurodiverse workforce and an atypical hiring process designed to eliminate interviewer bias and allow selecting the best skilled candidates to join their team, I was enthused. Their QA testing position in specific seemed to be a job that would pay quite a reasonable wage for the hours involved and would never require meeting...