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But what if some of the best candidates aren't getting hired because the system that created the applicant pool is skewed/biased and leads to under-representati
by JauntTrooper 10y ago
But what if some of the best candidates aren't getting hired because the system that created the applicant pool is skewed/biased and leads to under-representation of talented candidates?
Isn't it be perfectly reasonable for a company to try to correct that bias in order to ensure they're hiring the best people?
It would be great if gender/race/age bias didn't exist in hiring, but there's a lot of evidence that it does.
The good diversity programs acknowledge the problem and aim to fix it in order to get the best talent.
- internaut 10y agoBlind hiring tests can be done. Oddly enough there is no drive for it. Curious, that.
- Dylan16807 10y agoBecause it's harder to do and people think they're better at judging candidates with more info than they actually are. Not very curious, that.
- internaut 10y agoI agree with the second proposition but don't see why it should be harder to accomplish. It appears to be largely a matter of requesting some information through a channel that does not permit nonessential observation, like a Turing Test or rather the original Victorian game, a reversed Imitation Game.
- kofejnik 10y ago"But what if some of the best candidates aren't getting hired ..." But what if they are and current racial composition just reflects that? If there are talented minority coders who are overlooked by Google/Apple, it should be possible to exploit this market inefficiency, no need to enforce it. But what if some of the best candidates aren't getting hired because companies overlooked them while trying to hire alongside racial quotas? Seems much more likely.
- HarryHirsch 10y agoIt's that for many jobs good enough is in fact good enough, and then the hiring question turns into a quality-of-life issue. Some people really don't like to sit across from blacks, queers or Trump voters.