rmartelli

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by rmartelli 9y ago
> How could anyone be against the very concept of setting or codifying expectations? “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” Yes, it sounds good on paper, but in my exp
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by rmartelli 9y ago
You can find the brief here: https://www.scribd.com/document/372751852/Wilberg-v-Google-R... A screenshot from an email says (p28): "Please continue with L3 candidates in process and only continue with L3 can
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by rmartelli 9y ago
At least for phone interviews, the bias doesn't exist or goes the other way: From http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas... : After running the experiment, we ended up with some rather surprising
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by rmartelli 9y ago
"he was calling out undocumented and transgendered students by name; not just talking about what he dislikes about these groups" This was a controversial case where a transgender person gave her name while she was on Milwaukee&#x2
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by rmartelli 9y ago
Yes, the coding challenges and interviews are the same. But they are graded differently even before the packet is seen by the hiring committee. I've talked to many interviewers at my company, and many people talk about how they bump u
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by rmartelli 9y ago
I'm not sure why we should assume that lowering the bar is even in the best interest of the women/minorities. If I was hired for a position I that I wasn't qualified enough to get myself, I would likely not perform as well, a
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by rmartelli 10y ago
Their argument typically looks like this: Choosing a candidate pool that is 80+% men (>X years experience as a developer) is inherently sexist. To eliminate structural sexism, we must remove hiring criteria that favors men. Let's
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by rmartelli 10y ago
Sorry that it's hard to believe. My CEO was previously an activist so the people brought in to talk are definitely outside what you would expect in corporate America. Unfortunately it's hard to find sources for this except for int
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How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity(medium.com)
67 points by rmartelli 10y ago|56 comments