In an phone screen interview yesterday the candidate introduced herself(?) as “Hi, I am X, and my pronouns are X-XX-XX”. This is the first time in the last however months I’ve been interviewing someone called out their pronouns on the call and my first reaction internally was damn thats some hokey-wokey shit right there. Like I get it, but the context matters. We are in an interview. I am not going to call you by your pronoun if you are sitting right in front of me but call you by your name, if at all required. Nothing in the interview format (which candidates know well in advance!) require any of this pronouns BS. Now if you were already hired and you are sending an intro email, or setting your slack status please absolutely call your pronouns - its important, but using it anywhere without context makes it look really inauthentic and comes across as needless.