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you're a young white male? of course you won't understand, "keep improving yourself" what an elitist thing to say from the IT bubble.. most profession plateau,

by mark024 10y ago

you're a young white male? of course you won't understand, "keep improving yourself" what an elitist thing to say from the IT bubble.. most profession plateau, it doesn't matter if you have 10 or 20 years of experience, even in IT it doesn't.

artursapek 10y ago
I've conducted a lot of job interviews and debriefs at "IT bubble" startups and have not seen anything resembling race/gender bias. Where is this bias happening?
- lazyasciiart 10y ago
  Did you read the article?
  - artursapek 10y ago
    Article talks about age bias. I'm responding to a SJW whining about someone being a "white male"
- mark024 10y ago
  Just recently I saw a reddit thread about a black web developer women being paid much less than her coworkers, she overhead her boss talking on the phone about hiring another guy because they have a lot of work, talking about how he affords it, because he pays her so little and he can get away with it, because "what she's going do", "who is going to hire her" a black developer woman.
  - ThomPete 10y ago
    If she is any goood any of the big companies would take her. There is always a shortage of good talent.
  - bbcbasic 10y ago
    Another lawsuit ITT :-)
- user5994461 10y ago
  There is a definitive bias from older people against startups. Half of them stop the interview soon after we tell them there are on-call on some week ends. The other half simple refuse the offer, something to do with the number allegedly.
  - tastythrowaway2 10y ago
    Can't tell if this is meant to be facetious. If it's not, it seems more like a case of misaligned expectations.
dang 10y ago
That's unduly personal and breaks the civility rule here. Please read the rules of this site and follow them when commenting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13957192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13957192 and marked it off-topic.

by mark024 10y ago

artursapek 10y ago

I've conducted a lot of job interviews and debriefs at "IT bubble" startups and have not seen anything resembling race/gender bias. Where is this bias happening?

lazyasciiart 10y ago
Did you read the article?
- artursapek 10y ago
  Article talks about age bias. I'm responding to a SJW whining about someone being a "white male"
mark024 10y ago
Just recently I saw a reddit thread about a black web developer women being paid much less than her coworkers, she overhead her boss talking on the phone about hiring another guy because they have a lot of work, talking about how he affords it, because he pays her so little and he can get away with it, because "what she's going do", "who is going to hire her" a black developer woman.
- ThomPete 10y ago
  If she is any goood any of the big companies would take her. There is always a shortage of good talent.
- bbcbasic 10y ago
  Another lawsuit ITT :-)
user5994461 10y ago
There is a definitive bias from older people against startups. Half of them stop the interview soon after we tell them there are on-call on some week ends. The other half simple refuse the offer, something to do with the number allegedly.
- tastythrowaway2 10y ago
  Can't tell if this is meant to be facetious. If it's not, it seems more like a case of misaligned expectations.

dang 10y ago

That's unduly personal and breaks the civility rule here. Please read the rules of this site and follow them when commenting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13957192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13957192 and marked it off-topic.