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What's next? All the interviews have to take place in a dark room so that the interviewer can't see the color of the interviewee's skin?
by noloqy 13y ago
What's next? All the interviews have to take place in a dark room so that the interviewer can't see the color of the interviewee's skin?
- nollidge 13y agoNo, that's not next.
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoTuring Test interviews.
- cpeterso 13y agoIRC interviews
- Someone 13y agoEven that is not 100% watertight: http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php
- whiterabbit2 13y agoI tried my own comments from this page. The majority gives me around 70-85% male (I'm a feminine female). But adding one comment which was talking "childcare" and such gave me "only" a weak male (saying it might indicate European). It's so stereotypical. Interesting also how it divides people into males, females and Europeans (the "weak" versions).
- zxcdw 13y agoWhere do I sign up?
- rozap 13y agoChinese room interviews.
- johnny99 13y agoIt wouldn't be unprecedented. Symphonies regularly use "blind auditions," with the performer behind a screen, to prevent bias (typically against women). Blind auditions significantly improved women's chances of being selected, as related by Malcolm Gladwell in 'Blink'. Here's the original study he references: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~hf14/teaching/povertydisc/readings/goldin-rouse99.pdf http://public.econ.duke.edu/~hf14/teaching/povertydisc/readi...
- kragen 13y agoThat would be excellent wherever it's feasible. The way Gladwell tells it (so take it with a grain of salt), when symphony orchestras started conducting their auditions with a screen in place so they couldn't see the person playing the instrument, the fraction of female musicians in top orchestras shot way up. However, in cases where the quality of in-person interaction is a major part of what you're trying to assess — like for a team programming environment — it's going to be pretty hard to do anything comparable.
- lmm 13y agoHow important is personal interaction to most programming jobs, really?
- joshuacc 13y agoI'd go so far as to say that it might be slightly more important than the ability to write code, depending on the company, the project, etc. Being able to effectively discuss requirements and technical tradeoffs with non-technical stakeholders is extremely valuable. Obviously some level of programming expertise is required, but once you've crossed that minimum threshold, personal communication becomes a larger and larger share of an employees value.
- munificent 13y agoPersonal interaction is critical to any job unless your boss is a robot.
- yaddayadda 13y agoA telephone interview will accomplish the same thing, and reduces travel expenses to boot. In fact telephone, or skype, interviews for the first round is actually becoming standard in many fields.
- stfu 13y agoBut what about language pattern, vocabulary and dialects? What about university names or degrees if it makes companies favor those over others that are self taught. One can put this into an absurd chain of arguments...