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I believe the parent was trying to say that it's potentially illegally discriminatory in the US due to the fact that FOSS is gender and racially biased hugely i
by latortuga 13y ago
I believe the parent was trying to say that it's potentially illegally discriminatory in the US due to the fact that FOSS is gender and racially biased hugely in favor of white male participation. If you use it is a screening tool to cull candidates, there's probably a case for you breaking US hiring laws.
- rjknight 13y agoThat strikes me as unlikely. I might just be naive, but I can't imagine being sued for filtering candidates on their code portfolios. This is a genuine and non-rhetorical question: how does it differ from academic qualifications? Both are unpaid work that a person undertakes [partly] in order to prove their value to potential employers, but nobody is getting sued for filtering candidates based on academic qualifications.