Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?

Going public is extremely risky for her. Making a public but anonymous report is still risky. Either one might fuck up her legal case.

IMHO, if they are a small startup and this douchebag is involved hiring, contacting HR is basically the same thing as contacting him and telling him he needs to stop. Which is probably what I would have done.

However, I'm an overly trusting and forgiving person. So if it were me, I would have assumed that the dude was being totally honest throughout the interview process. I think OP's instincts are better than mine:

I asked him if he had any questions about my background or interests, but he kind of...ignored that and just started telling me what his team did.

he'd spoken to his team and they were looking for someone with a lot more experience

Those two things are at odds, right? He didn't ask about her experience. This sounds like a ploy: He didn't want to hire her; He only wanted to date her.

their tech team is so small that I could never work there anyway because this dude would be there. I also feel like management should know that they have an employee who would do this to a female candidate so that they can take steps to prevent this in the future

If their tech team is so small, and features people like this guy... perhaps management knows and basically doesn't care whether they ignore women as engineering candidates. Are there any women engineers?

So... in the OP's case, I would recommend getting legal advice ASAP. Hopefully from an experienced friend - there is probably no lawsuit that needs to be filed ASAP, she just needs to know how to extricate herself from these conversations without damaging her case.

Then finish interviewing and get a job somewhere else.

Then get a lawyer to threaten or file suit, if there's a case. Getting that job is more urgent.

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