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Mumbai Job Seekers Report Intrusive Family and Marriage Probes in Interviews

Candidates say these personal questions are designed to gauge financial vulnerability

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The job seeker said that they were asked about whether they were planning to get married.

Overview

  • A Mumbai job seeker detailed on Reddit on May 29 that the director of a marketing agency and an HR representative asked about earning family members and marital plans during an interview
  • The post has received over 200 upvotes on r/IndianWorkplace and spurred a flood of user accounts describing similar irrelevant pre-interview queries
  • Candidates report being quizzed on details such as their father’s occupation, household income, number of siblings, parents’ jobs, residential pin code and EMIs before any formal interview was scheduled
  • Observers contend these intrusive lines of questioning are a tactic to measure applicants’ financial stress and willingness to accept less favorable job conditions
  • The online discussion has brought attention to a broader pattern of invasive recruitment practices in India and prompted calls for stricter professional boundaries in hiring