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"The belief that meritorious people will rise to the top" requires believing that people of equal merit are treated equally, but that doesn't happen - people ha
by britta 13y ago
"The belief that meritorious people will rise to the top" requires believing that people of equal merit are treated equally, but that doesn't happen - people have all kinds of biases and *isms that muddy this up.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoGithub is the great equalizer against bias of almost any sort. I look at github when filtering candidates. At the time I'm deciding to interview them, I probably don't even know their name, race, gender, if they went to college, or anything else of that sort. All I can see is their code.
- steveklabnik 13y agoThe point is, by the time they get there, this filtering has already happened.