- By Shailvee Tiwari
- Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:05 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
LinkedIn Viral Post: A marketing professional from Delhi has gone viral on LinkedIn after she shared her upsetting job interview experience. Pragya, who has 11 years of experience in marketing, applied for a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) role, but instead of being asked about her work, the interview became all about her personal life. In the viral post, she claimed that the interview lasted just 14 minutes. For the first 11 minutes, she spoke about her career. But in the last 3 minutes, the company promoter only asked personal questions like: “How many family members do you have?”, “How old are your kids?”, “What school do they go to?”, “Who will look after them?”, “How will you travel from Delhi to Gurgaon?”, “What does your husband do?”
She wrote, “And that's it... No further questions on my experience, revenue I handled, businesses I grew, industries I worked in, my achievements, my failures, challenging projects I worked on, or amazing work that I have ever delivered. Not even my strengths and weaknesses!”
Pragya said she knew then she wouldn't get the job. The next day, when she followed up with HR, they confirmed she was rejected. When she asked why, she was told one of the reasons was that she had “very young kids.” She shared that the rejection didn’t bother her as much as the unfair treatment. She has led Diversity & Inclusion work and POSH committees in her career and said many women face similar bias.
Pragya also pointed out that many leadership roles she applied for recently were still male-dominated. Her story has now started a big conversation online about how women professionals are judged for their personal life instead of their work.
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The post shared a few hours ago received many comments from LinkedIn users. One user commented, "I was once asked such kind of marriage and stuff related questions in one of the interviews and at the same moment, I had made up my mind to never ever work in the same org."
"This post really hit home. As a mother who once faced rejection during final interview rounds, simply because I had a 2-month-old baby, it deeply hurt. I carried that grudge for years. And now, as a founder, I find myself on the other side of the table, making hiring decisions, and asking the very questions that once broke me," a second user wrote.
"This is, in fact, happening even before you have kids. I remember being asked if I’m planning to get married soon because I was inching close to my mid-20s, and that’s just pathetic in my opinion if they have to consider the amount of “leaves” if a girl is close to marriage," added a third user. "You are talking about kids? A woman herself once asked me if I intend to get married anytime soon, what my relationship status is, and how marriage can interfere with my career," a fourth user commented.