As I'm sure I've said before on HN I've worked for people who were quite open about discriminatory hiring and their underlying prejudices. However, given the s

As I'm sure I've said before on HN I've worked for people who were quite open about discriminatory hiring and their underlying prejudices. However, given the specifics of this story, my first thought is that the discrepancy here has more to do with the newness of the profile than the whiteness. Also, I'd be surprised ethnicity information were provided directly to employers. In my experience with this kind of discrimination it's based on given names. Come to think of it, I'd expect ethnicity to be used in order to filter in favor of minorities for the purpose of fulfilling DBE requirements and the like.