A recruiter from a hot Silicon Valley biotech SaaS startup just headhunted me for a role at LatchBio. They’re fast-growing and have top tier investors so it seems like a great opportunity but as I researched the role I saw something highly unusual buried in the job description, it says “Requirements: We work six days a week (Mon-Sat) in person in Mission Bay, SF.”
Working six days a week is unheard of in my industry and totally not necessary in order for me to do my job. I’d really like to pursue this opportunity but I don’t know how to address the issue of not working on Shabbat.
Has anyone had a potential employer require something like this before? Given that the employer is technically upfront about to the requirement does that mean they’re basically allowed to exclude any observant Jews from consideration? I feel like if this was a legitimate requirement like a security-guard role where someone was needed to guard a building on the weekend or a nursing role where a hospital needed someone to look after patients in the weekend that would be totally understandable. But this is a company that’s demanding a full normal workweek which literally what every other tech company finds sufficient to fulfill rhe requirements of the job PLUS working in-office all day Saturday.
For more context, see this article that a local journalist wrote about the company when I told her about what’s going on.
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