IBM's job application site featured a drop-down menu for ethnicity, and options included the racial slurs 'yellow' and 'mulatto.'
IBM's job application site featured a drop-down menu in which applicants had to list their ethnicity, and options included"yellow" and"mulatto."
When the Register investigated further it found the menu had been removed, but it was still findable in the website's code.IBM has apologized after an engineer found racial slurs embedded in its job application page,The Register was tipped off on Monday by an engineer who was applying for a job at the tech giant. The engineer clicked on a drop-down menu, which said"please state your Ethnic group.
When the Register looked at the site it found the menu had gone, but was present in the website's code. It also found that the menu elements were preceded by a"Brazil_" prefix, suggesting a link to the country. In the Twitter video,"not a Brazil national," comes up as an option on the first menu.
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