The questions embody questions on their sexual historical past and pornography.
Feminine candidates who utilized to the personal workplace of Microsoft co-founder Invoice Gates have been requested sexually express questions: The Wall Street Journal has reported. The questions embody questions on their sexual historical past and pornography.
The Journal reported that the questions additionally included questions on candidates’ earlier drug use and whether or not they had ever had an extramarital affair. The questions have been administered by a safety firm and seemed to be designed to find out whether or not the candidates could be vulnerable to blackmail.
The report mentioned: “Some feminine candidates have been requested in the event that they ever had extramarital affairs, what sort of pornography they most popular and if they’d nude footage of themselves on their telephones.”
“Feminine candidates have been typically requested if they’d ever ‘danced for {dollars}’… One of many candidates was requested if she had ever contracted a sexually transmitted illness,” the report mentioned.
Notably, not one of the male candidates have been requested such questions, though the publication writes that it’s doable that different male candidates have been questioned about their intercourse lives.
A spokesperson for Gates’ workplace advised the publication they have been unaware that candidates have been being subjected to such interviews, including, “This technique of questioning could be unacceptable and a violation of Gates Ventures’ settlement with the contractor.”
The background checks have been carried out by outdoors contractor Concentric Advisors.
Mr. Gates, with a internet price of $132 billion, is the quantity 4 richest individual on the earth, in response to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
