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>This is, of course, the employers' problem to solve. This is difficult for them to do so, due to stupid laws. If they had a hiring exam, and it happened to sh
by tryptophan 6y ago
>This is, of course, the employers' problem to solve.
This is difficult for them to do so, due to stupid laws. If they had a hiring exam, and it happened to show a certain race performing worse on it, they would get sued for racism and lose. So instead, they just do the safe thing, and let collages filter out the undesirables for them.
- geofft 6y agoI believe this isn't true in the US at least for the following reasons: - Many employers do in fact have hiring exams: see Triplebyte, HackerRank, etc. in our own industry, but also civil service exams etc. - Colleges themselves rely on exams (like the SAT) with known racial disparities in scoring for admission. - Colleges completion rates vary by race. So one would think that employers would already be sued for racism if that were possible. (But, perhaps the argument is that employers want to filter people by race, and they wouldn't be able to do so as easily with a hiring exam as via indirect means like recruiting from certain colleges.)