I remove any description that is not specifically related to the job. You're left with 1. Fresh out of college bachelor in compSci and masters in Gender Stud

I remove any description that is not specifically related to the job. You're left with 1. Fresh out of college bachelor in compSci and masters in Gender Studies. Won the Leah Culver award for being a strong programmer (no idea what "don't need no code" means). 2. A person who has 12 University degrees, and is proficient in languages and software which is yet to be released, suspect. 3. An expert Rails developer who has been through the ringer with multiple start-ups and knows what start-ups are all about. (You likely have no way of knowing he works 80+ hours per week, unless he said so, and is very unproductive due to fucking around most of the time). Now, clearly, you've loaded this question so much to the point that there is only one choice, and that is the 'white woman'. But if she were a 'black woman', an Indian man, a house cat, make any difference to your question? She is the ONLY choice of the choices you provided because based on the information you've given, she is the only one who can apparently code. Now, give the Indian person proficiency in actual languages and apps, and remove the fact that the brogrammer is unproductive, and see where you go with that? Now you've got a decision to make. What is it? Well, you can't know, which is why you have to interview them, see who's the best fit for the culture, etc. etc. If this is an actual situation, and your boss picked anybody other than the first choice, and you're wondering why, stop wondering why, and maybe start making a move to a better place to work.