Mine is less about race or college. It's often mismatch between how people sell themselves vs what they have done. a director at google might oversell himself

Mine is less about race or college. It's often mismatch between how people sell themselves vs what they have done. a director at google might oversell himself and land at a vp role at a public co what's much less smaller, than swing back at another faang as a vp. It's hard to judge someone's skills/capabilities for a job role externally vs while on the job. So you have "proxies". How big of an org s/he managed is often an indicator of some sort of success, but it's a terrible one, for example.