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He’s going to dedupe the social security databases, thinking that he’s screwing over trans people because he thinks they are the only people who change their names… not realizing that the vast majority of married women have at least two names associated with their SSN.
You should generally only ask questions that relate directly to the job. If you start asking unrelated questions then the applicant could feel that you are discriminating against them for some reason. But I get the desire to give someone who is a good fit, but you should find a more subtle way.
I’m in IT and I like to ask applicants if they have any systems at home that they manage. One guy told me how he went on craigslist and purchased an old server to play around with VMware when the company he was with first started looking into it. That impressed me because it’s something I’d do. He was a top contender, so I sent him home with some homework: I asked to see an example of some documentation that he’s written up. The next day he sent me a detailed diagram and full documentation of his home torrent system, how he has Plex, Sonarr and Radarr setup, and how his drives are laid out. I found a new best friend that day.