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There is an interview type where gender (or even attractiveness/height/race which can bias folks) is not taken into consideration - when orchestras have auditio
by stevenwoo 9y ago
There is an interview type where gender (or even attractiveness/height/race which can bias folks) is not taken into consideration - when orchestras have auditions with the candidates that perform behind a curtain. Obviously there is some component of interviewing for a technical position where one is attempting to assay the candidates suitability for the work environment that is not compatible with this, but it's a pretty foolproof method (if no one is cheating) of making sure the interview process is gender/race blind at that stage. Off the top of my head, this lead to more women being hired for orchestras.
- peoplewindow 9y agoThe problem Google has is not the interviewing process itself (mostly). The problem is recruiters are told to try and close the gender gap. They find various ways to do this that may or may not be legal, but are at least morally questionable, like "reducing the false negative rate" as he puts it by letting women take more interviews despite a failing performance, like active discrimination in favour of women (and thus against men) and so on and so forth. Even if interviewers had no idea who they were interviewing, which is possible but logistically awkward (Aline Lerner posted some data on this), the recruiters would know, and they're the ones making the decisions around how the recruiting process proceeds.