Social media giant Facebook has denied African-Americans job applicants at the company because they were looking for “culture fit,” US media reports said.

In a report by The Intercept, an unnamed Black woman, who holds a doctorate, has claimed that she felt rushed and belittled while giving an interview for a Facebook position, and was later told that she would not like the job.

“You have a big brain, you wouldn’t like this job,” The Intercept quoted the woman as recalling the incident.

“There’s no doubt you can do the job, but we’re really looking for a culture fit,”  the Washington Post quoted the same woman in their report.

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The women and two other African-American applicants have gone on to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding workplace discrimination at Facebook.

“We believe it is essential to provide all employees with a respectful and safe working environment. We take any allegations of discrimination seriously and investigate every case,” Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone was quoted as saying by the Intercept

Oscar Veneszee Junior, working as an operations manager at Facebook was quoted by the Washington Post that he has seen qualified applicants get rejected because they failed to be “culture fit.”

He said when he was interviewed for the job, the one thing he was told was that he needed to be a culture fit.

“When I tried to recruit people, I knew I needed [to] find people who were a culture fit. But unfortunately not many people I knew could pass that challenge because the culture here does not reflect the culture of Black people,” Veneszee Junior told Washington Post