It means placing an experience in context, and being able to relate it to other contexts.
For example, if you know someone who works with PHP then contextualizing their experience could follow these steps: understand that PHP is a programming language, look at their code and see it is well architected, decide to hire them even despite inexperience in Ruby because they have the core skills.
Being unable to contextualize experience isn't the same as not having emotional empathy. It is being unable to have an actionable intellectual grasp of a topic.
My best guess is the interviewer didn't know shit and could only use "facebook," "google," "stanford" as indicators that someone who did know shit considered the interviewee worthwhile.
probably. Most pre-interview programs are heavily biased for those keywords too. So, when her resume when viral, she got a interview through the front end PR campaign called "this resume went viral, do something about it". Then, the interview was exactly the same as the software screening, but with doublespeak.
Not sure, but I think it means they couldn't make an apples-to-apples comparison. To them, they wanted some Coca Cola and instead were presented with a pair of Air Jordans. Sure, they are nice shoes, but they wanted a Coke.
Actually, they got a Pepsi. Tastes the same, affects the body the same, the only thing different was the packaging. And to be honest, if they didn't hire her because of the interviewers bias then she may have dodged a bullet- that kind of thing really raises a red flag for what a companies culture really values. And now I'll be more wary if looking for a job at AirBnb
For example, if you know someone who works with PHP then contextualizing their experience could follow these steps: understand that PHP is a programming language, look at their code and see it is well architected, decide to hire them even despite inexperience in Ruby because they have the core skills.
Being unable to contextualize experience isn't the same as not having emotional empathy. It is being unable to have an actionable intellectual grasp of a topic.