Ha, I think this is a pretty classic description of unconscious bias; you have warm fuzzies about people with robust public profiles, without having given much

Ha, I think this is a pretty classic description of unconscious bias; you have warm fuzzies about people with robust public profiles, without having given much thought to whether it's a strong signal of performance. Edit to add: I feel like this came off as harsh, but it really wasn't intended to at all. We all have this kind of bias. I have a bit of the opposite bias as you, for what it's worth, because the best people I've worked with have been essentially silent in public, and I tend to see people with robust public profiles as having spent time on marketing themselves that could have been better spent on other things. This kind of bias that we all build throughout our life experience is why hiring is extremely fraught.