throwtheworld

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   by throwtheworld 5y ago

   Unfortunately, once you’re giving “priority” to such a broad group of people (e.g. every permutation of gender, whatever you consider ethnic, and ability minorities) it becomes easy to say one thing and continue doing another. The companies
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   by throwtheworld 5y ago

   This is one of the things I was looking into, thank you!
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   by throwtheworld 5y ago

   > For a while I wanted to try a 'secret shopper' experiment We did something like this! But we swapped slightly reworded resumes and the response ratio leaned even further in the white classmate’s favor. We just laughed, as if
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   by throwtheworld 5y ago

   > long as you pass the interviews. 40 applications and 2 resume consultations later and no interview even offered. Meanwhile, some guy you run circles around in real world programming/business experience is 8 for 10. My white classm
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   by throwtheworld 5y ago

   > Dropping out of a fancy Computer Science program that you're already in would seem like an extraordinarily bad idea Of course haha the name brand and few cool professors are keeping me at this point. But I never expected to go fro
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   by throwtheworld 5y ago

   > A narrative that (white) men are uniformly privileged and life is just easy for them. This is very perspective dependent. I’m a black college student now and every conversation with friends back home includes some mention of dropping o