[kinkora]

I have two.

The first is my own experience of being turned down for a part-time engineering role because the company didn't think it was safe or good for me to travel so much. From where i stayed at that time, it would have taken me roughly 90 minutes to get there and another 90 minutes to get back if i got the job. To be fair to them, I honestly felt they were concerned for my well being.

The second is from a previous company I worked for and I was asked to temporarily join a hiring team that were bringing in new recruits (mostly uni grads) to evaluate their technical abilities. There was a really young candidate whom I felt stood out but he had a quirkiness of pulling out a sesame street soft toy from his bag and stroking it every time he faced a "challenging" question. I had absolutely no issues with that but HR apparently felt that was too weird for them.

[JGailor]

That is definitely an interesting quirk.

The first one seemed pretty decent of them. It would have at least given me a warm feeling about not getting an offer based on concern for my well-being.