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> But we already do use credentials as gatekeeping. There's a lot of talk about bootcamps and whatnot, but how many of these people actually get passed the resu
by 908B64B197 6y ago
> But we already do use credentials as gatekeeping. There's a lot of talk about bootcamps and whatnot, but how many of these people actually get passed the resume screen when compared to a Stanford CS grad?
At some point there's a signal to noise ratio issue here as well.
- jonathankoren 6y agoThat's gatekeeping logic.
- sokoloff 6y agoMost every company I know would love to exploit any high-conversion, high-quality pocket of candidates. If companies are passing on specific pockets, it’s likely from a belief that the conversion from top of funnel to successful hire is low.
- jonathankoren 6y agoCompanies don’t examine their efforts. They copy off of each other. How many processes are simply aped with the excuse, “Well, BigCo does this, so it must be right”? There’s plenty of excuses for gatekeeping, but the real reason is laziness. Of course, we don’t call it that, we call it a meritocracy and apply our biases as “common knowledge”, “proven”, or if we’re feeling particularly full of ourselves, a “sufficient statistic”, but never what it is: a bias, a blanket assumption, a gate. As soon as you’re relying on assumptions, it’s not a meritocracy. It’s bias promotion, ie gatekeeping.