[eddieroger]

Was there really no way to answer that without your own editorialization? Maybe without picking off a stereotype list? I'm pretty glad I don't where ever you work, because the "other white dudes" at your place sound dreadful, and I imagine you get along pretty well with them.

[laichzeit0]

I don't know? I'm trying to be frank here. You can't really dance around these issues. I know this because I've sat in many hiring sessions and interviewed many people. By the time you've shook someone's hand and they've uttered their name it's already 50% made up in people's mind if they're gonna hire this person or not. Welcome to the shit show.

I'm just giving a heads up for some poor dudes that wanna "play the game" and make a good career. Or what is worse is the poor guys that post on HN about "I've been to 50 interviews, everyone thinks my resume is great but I'm not landing any jobs". The fit or fuck off attitude is still very much alive in the corporate world.

I could write a similar list for the typical white geek that dresses like Rainman or has autistic body language and wonders why he's not getting hired.

[nunez]

We make decisions about people within the first second of meeting them. Read here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/how-many-secon...

There is no way around this. Everyone does it.

[vorotato]

You could be aware that you do that and counteract it in any way? For example I saw this and my reflex interpretation was that you were extremely dumb, but instead of just saying that I thought maybe they just haven't thought about using their conscious mind to affect their behavior.

[nunez]

Why? I provided an argument with a source. Also, I wasn't saying that those feelings were immutable; I was just stating the fact that we make somewhat-lasting impressions very quickly on first glance, and those impressions can take time to change.

[vorotato]

You don't have to change your feelings you just need to be aware of them and change your behavior. The moment we become aware of our cognitive biases is the moment we gain the capacity to work against them. It's great that you identified a cognitive bias, but it's not enough to be aware of bias, you need to correct for it. This way your behavior lines up with how you see yourself, and who you want to be. You can correct for a bias you presently have, even if you haven't overcome it. For example I might be biased to say yes to every question, but equipped with this knowledge I can use my conscious mind to correct for this bias, even though I still have it!

As you behave against the bias this will slowly work to correct the biased expectations, because you will have new experience that contradicts previous assumptions.