A while back, I did a series of (apparently flubbed) interviews at gunpoint.<p>I was living with my mother and father, and my father would often stand at the top of the stairs to the basement, armed, begrudgingly staying out of "his" space long enough to conduct an interview.<p>In parallel, the local police would harass me -- showing up, saying they could search my room or belongings, basically... treating me more like a prisoner of war on house arrest than a published scientist.<p>(I confided to them I was attempting OSCP, and one of those responding eventually was himself arrested, so there may have been a conflict of interest with the locals, given I was known to report on illegal activities to contacts out of state from my brief stint in policy -- I used to joke my senator was useless so I have to route everything through Ron Wyden, who will one day make anime real)<p>Anyways... to get on topic: do you account for situations like this in your interview process? Does your company offer re-interviews or leads on safe spaces for interviews?<p>On my end, I've given up on tech after the above experience -- I felt like folks who knew what was going on exploited my terror to get free consulting, then after my COBRA expired I was abandoned, but I passed a leftover sign from domestic violence month that made me think back to that time.
Sorry to hear that happened to you.<p>But surely that that's not something that generally happens in any frequency that companies should take measures for, any more so than any other freak occurence.