Discussion on question by Some-Interviewee-2024: My interviewer has a serious legal offense charge, and I'm not sure the company knows. What should I do?

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Q: My interviewer has a serious legal offense charge, and I'm not sure the company knows. What should I do?

This is a throwaway account to preserve anonymity. Details below has likewise been anonymized as much as possible. I have been in the interview process with a company in the Bay Area, California. There is nothing sketchy about the company itself—they are a small-ish startup that was recently acqu...

DarkCygnus

"It is entirely possible they have done no sort of background check on him and aren't aware of his sex offender status, or that such things are public record in the US." - I feel this is a week assumption, in general it's actually more likely to assume a BG check has been made rather than it wasn't (at least in the US). "Given the above, I feel a moral obligation to bring this to the company's attention." - Do you? I don't think you have any obligation, you don't even work for them (yet), nor it's your job to be auditing and looking up information and background about their employees.

user593289

@DarkCygnus not an assumption really, more a possibility. I hope the company is not aware, not least of all because I otherwise am strongly interested in working for them.

keshlam

It is entirely possible, and likely, that you have associated the name with the wrong person; names do get replicated, and you haven't done a full match for identity. The risk of embarrassing yourself is HUGE even assuming this doesn't rise to the level of libel. The potential of doing yourself any good in the interviewing process is zero or less. Bringing this up in any way but anonymously and without much MUCH stronger evidence would make me seriously question your judgement.

user593289

@keshlam It is unfortunately not likely. Again, the sex offender registry contains a mugshot of this person. It is the exact same person I interviewed with over a video call, and the exact same person on the LinkedIn profile linked to me. There is no doubt that it is him.

Gregory Currie

If you don't want to work with this person, that's fine. Simply withdraw your application.

user593289

09:17

@StephanBranczyk Both the company and the employee I'm referring to are in California (I would be relocating for the role, if I took it). Thank you for bringing this to my attention, this was the exact sort of thing I was worried I could be unaware of that led me to post here.

Gregory Currie

I've made the question more generic because the particulars of the crime don't matter.

user593289

@GregoryCurrie I disagree, and note several times in the body text that it's the fact that it's a sexual crime against children specifically that makes this unique.

Gregory Currie

@Some-Interviewee-2024 No. It doesn't. It is a crime that you feel morally reprehensible. That's all that matters.

user593289

@GregoryCurrie Maybe that is all that matters to you. I didn't ask for your opinion, and I don't know why you are insisting on editing the question until it's so generic as to not actually answer the question I had. All the exisiting answers (including the accepted one) are for the original text I had, and by repeatedly trying to edit the question to suit what you think it should be you're making it confusing for anyone who reads them in the future.

Gregory Currie

@Some-Interviewee-2024 I don't need your invitation (or permission).

user593289

09:17

@GregoryCurrie You may not be aware of this but in the United States sexual crimes are unique in being public record. Other crimes are not. Sexual crimes have unique status in the US, and therefore it is integral to the substance of this question.

Gregory Currie

@Some-Interviewee-2024 How is that relevant? If the crime wasn't public record would you be willing to work with them?

@Some-Interviewee-2024 And you'll find that most trials are public record too. Unless the judge decides to suppress the record.

Mars

A mod intervention would be great here. I think Gregory has a valid point and OP has probably given out way too much information, to the point that this person can now be found with some effort. That sounds to me like a violation of CoC, even if the information is technically public domain.

Matthieu M.

@GregoryCurrie: Please stop with the rollback war. Consensus on meta, as far as I know, is that if the OP rolls back your edit and you disagree, you should use a custom flag to hail moderators and explain your reasoning in the flag OR bring the question up on meta. In under no circumstance should you engage in a tug of war.

Gregory Currie

@MatthieuM. I've stopped already.

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