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And "cultural fit" can also be code for classism. Too bad for you that you didn't go to Stanford, Harvard, etc.

• potatolicious 13y ago
  Yeah, with respect to cletus, what he stated aren't reasons, they're excuses. Let's do a little bit of search and replace and see how these statements read: - Gender matters a lot in hiring. By this I mean a woman is much more likely to hire another woman in a field of qualified candidates. This isn't simply a form of nepotism as such. Two people from the same gender will share a larger common cultural base; - The race the founders bring shapes the organization. Many startups are started by whites. It shouldn't surprise you that this biases the makeup of their workforces and what they look for; We wouldn't accept either of the above as a valid excuse for poor hiring practices, even though both statement are true. In modern society we acknowledge that it's all too easy to hire people like oneself, deliberately or otherwise - this is why we go out of our way to minimize the effects of these biases in our hiring. The tech industry on the other hand seems to celebrate it to the point where "cultural fit" is the core of hiring practice. A lot of the ridiculous Silicon Valley stereotypes come from the immense monoculture it runs.