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> Family obligations do not help. You've put your finger on it right there. These type of interview questions are biased toward candidates with plenty of free
by webmaven 8y ago
> Family obligations do not help.
You've put your finger on it right there. These type of interview questions are biased toward candidates with plenty of free time and few obligations. This effectively has ageist, sexist, and classist[0] consequences.
[0] Racist as well, to the extent (which is considerable) that class is entagled with race.
- oculusthrift 8y agoyes anything that requires competence has those consequences. you could say the same for not learning anything.
- webmaven 8y ago> anything that requires competence has those consequences. Not true. Are you in the "prioritizing diversity means lowering our hiring standards" camp?
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- JoeAltmaier 8y agoThat inevitably seems somehow biased (I'm trying not to use a worse word) at its root. Hiring non-white non-men does not lead, inevitably, to worse hires. To imagine so is to paint entire demographics as inferior?