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Blind hiring _might_ work: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-blind-hiring-the-best-hiring.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-blind

Blind hiring _might_ work: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-blind-hiring-the-best-hiring.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-blind-hiring-... To ignore gender this should be combined with gender-neutral voice processing for phone interviews, but it’s doable and not that hard.

spicymaki 9y ago
What if the candidate went to Wellesley or Howard? What happens if the person went to university in Africa or Latin America? What if you puts SWE or NSBE on the resume, or obtained a merit-based UNCF scholarship and mentioned that as an achievement? The blind hiring system would fall flat pretty quickly. What happens after the person is hired?
- throwaway005 9y ago
  The much maligned tech interview is, ironically, the best tool for blind interviews. It is essentially an audition of technical skill. Blind auditions are used effectively to combat gender bias in a different field, https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/blind-auditions-orchestras-gender-bias https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/...
friedButter 9y ago
These guys tried it out, I'll leave the interpretation of the conclusion to the reader http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mask-gender-in-technical-interviews-heres-what-happened/ http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas... (yes, its inconclusive, but) > for technical ability, it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women. Though these trends weren’t statistically significant, I am mentioning them because they were unexpected and definitely something to watch for as we collect more data.

3 ms·

Blind hiring _might_ work: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-blind-hiring-the-best-hiring.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-blind

by Const-me 9y ago

spicymaki 9y ago
What if the candidate went to Wellesley or Howard? What happens if the person went to university in Africa or Latin America? What if you puts SWE or NSBE on the resume, or obtained a merit-based UNCF scholarship and mentioned that as an achievement? The blind hiring system would fall flat pretty quickly. What happens after the person is hired?
- throwaway005 9y ago
  The much maligned tech interview is, ironically, the best tool for blind interviews. It is essentially an audition of technical skill. Blind auditions are used effectively to combat gender bias in a different field, https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/blind-auditions-orchestras-gender-bias https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/...
friedButter 9y ago
These guys tried it out, I'll leave the interpretation of the conclusion to the reader http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mask-gender-in-technical-interviews-heres-what-happened/ http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas... (yes, its inconclusive, but) > for technical ability, it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women. Though these trends weren’t statistically significant, I am mentioning them because they were unexpected and definitely something to watch for as we collect more data.