A new report by The Wall Street Journal exposes the bizarre and
often sexual questions job applicants at Bill Gates
private office were allegedly asked by interviewers.
Now, these allegations are specifically about Gates Ventures,
which is Bill Gates private office.
And according to the report, some female job candidates were asked whether
they ever had extramarital affairs, what kind of pornography they preferred,
or if they had nude photographs of themselves on their phones.
And that's according to the candidates and people familiar with the hiring process.
So these are accusations, and the female candidates allegedly
sometimes were asked whether they had ever danced for dollars.
Some of the people said, one of the candidates was asked whether she ever or
she had ever contacted or contracted a sexually transmitted disease,
according to the candidate.
Now, it's not entirely clear whether male applicants were asked such questions,
but none who spoke to The Wall Street Journal said they had.
Of course, a spokesperson for Bill Gates said that his office hasn't heard
about such questions being asked during the background checks that are done
by third party contractors and insisted that if those questions were being asked,
it would totally be unacceptable.
But here's another thing you should know about.
Informally, Gates employees would warn job candidates that a former CIA
agent would be drilling into medical information, past drug use, and
relationships, including former sexual partners, some people said.
So the screenings, by the way, were conducted by a security consulting
firm known as Concentric Advisors that has several former CIA and
FBI officials on its staff.
>> Yeah, I can see questions that might get to the edge in an interview,
and maybe once or twice.
Not too often, I've been asked an uncomfortable question in an interview,
but nowhere near the line of getting up and leaving, right?
Because you presumably go into the interview because you really want the job,
you need the job, etcetera.
And these jobs at Microsoft, I'm sure are amazing jobs.
Not all of them, but probably a lot of them.
Having said that,
there are three things at a minimum here where you gotta get up and go.
Somebody asks you in a job interview, hey,
do you have any sexually transmitted diseases?
I'm like, okay, thanks.
I appreciate it.
I get up and leave.
>> Why would that be relevant?
>> That's my point.
>> These people are not running for public office.
>> No, it's not, guys.
That's my point.
It's not close.
Someone asks you, hey, do you have nude pictures of yourself on your phone?
You go, yeah.
I'll be right back.
Pull up William Pope move.
That's a friend of mine, got up in German classes 7th grade,
excuse himself to go to the bathroom, never came back.
The whole year, never came back.
Okay, pull a pope.
Get out of there, okay.
>> So, >> Somebody asks you what kind of porn you
watch, the correct answer is get up, leave, period.
>> So apparently this security consulting firm likes to ask
these types of questions to ensure that these people or
potential hires don't have some shady things in their past that can be used
against them as blackmail as they work- >> No, I understand the BS excuse.
>> That's a complete BS excuse.
Come on.
>> Look, guys, not close.
Not close, okay?
And never tell anyone what kind of porn you watch.
No, I'm doing it for a background.
I'm trying, [SOUND] not telling.
Yeah, what kind of porn do you watch?
Well, that's not relevant to you.
Well, neither is this, so go ahead and F off.
It's crazy talk.
Crazy talk.
>> Concentric said its protocols are totally kosher and follow.
>> Well, okay, they said it, so it must be.
>> They're following the laws people.
Asked how questions about sexual or medical histories comply with laws,
a spokesperson for this company denied it initiated such questions and
said such information can be volunteered by job candidates.
>> No, it can't.
I've never seen it volunteered.
>> When asked about public records.
Job candidates disputed the characterization,
saying they were asked about sensitive information and did not volunteer it.
>> Of course, guys, I've now done hundreds of interviews from the other side where
I'm interviewing the person who's looking for a job.
Never once has someone volunteered, by the way, these are my STDs.
Never once has someone volunteered, by the way, I have naked pictures on my phone.
>> And by the way, I wanna also be clear that I think you misspoke and
just quickly mentioned these jobs at Microsoft are great.
This isn't even for Microsoft jobs.
These are for Bill Gates's private office.
>> Yeah, my bad. >> Gates Ventures.
Okay, so.
>> Yeah, but by the way, I bet those jobs are great jobs, meaning they pay a lot.
Look, we're the fairest show in America.
I think Bill Gates has done tremendous charity work, and
I know that's not a popular opinion.
And both right wing and the left wing, they both hate him now and
they think maybe he destroyed the world, or 5G, or chips, or something, right?
Okay, and he's got questionable things in his past.
All that notwithstanding, the guy has not only himself, but
organized other billionaires to give away hundreds of billions of dollars.
And you could even question how some of those charities work and
whether they did a good job or whether some of them were counterproductive.
But giving away hundreds of billions of dollars ain't a small thing.
Having said that, these questions are nuts.
>> There's some stuff going on with Bill Gates that makes me a little
uncomfortable.
>> Yeah, I get it.
>> And I've been waiting, I've been absorbing some of the news that's been
coming out about him over the last few years because people are very quick
to make some pretty strong accusations about people.
But I'm gonna give you all the details and then you can decide for
yourselves because this stuff is starting to add up.
So Gates was investigated in 2019 by Microsoft board members over
allegations of a past sexual relationship with a Microsoft employee.
He had multiple extramarital affairs, which look,
that's none of my business, right?
Who cares about that?
And I think he underwent a divorce.
It seems like a pretty ugly divorce.
So I think some of this stuff came out in that process,
which is why I kind of hesitated on reporting on some of this stuff, but
he had ties to notorious sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
So beginning in 2011, Gates met with Epstein on numerous occasions,
including at least three times at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse.
Epstein also spoke with Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and
JPMorgan Chase about a proposed multibillion dollar charitable fund.
Bill's wife Melinda apparently didn't feel comfortable with him spending
time with Epstein, but he continued to do so anyway.
And later, during their divorce,
she alleged that that was a big reason why she no longer wanted to be with him.
So the relationship soured.
Epstein appeared to attempt to blackmail Gates in
2017 over an affair with a Russian bridge player.
Gates's spokespeople have said that he had a consensual
relationship with the Microsoft employee about two decades ago and that Epstein
tried unsuccessfully to leverage the past relationship with the Russian woman.
>> Yeah, well, look, so first of all, any relationship with Epstein is toxic and
disastrous.
But in this case, and Epstein always, not always, but it seems like Mo was
blackmail, right, that he would get people in compromising positions.
And part of the reason why he had young girls is because they're enormously
compromising.
And part of it is because he's a sick dude, and he liked that, right?
Now, in the case of, we don't know who he has leverage over,
cuz all those powerful people went and then they didn't volunteer, by the way,
he was blackmailing me, right?
None of them volunteered that.
There are some idiots like Trump who has verbal diarrhea,
and he said, we know that ABS like some young [LAUGH] okay.
>> Yeah.
>> But in the case of Bill Gates, he specifically was apparently trying to
blackmail him about extramarital affairs with grown women, right?
So that doesn't make Gates a good guy, right?
But understand that context as well.
So mixed back