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by alexasmyths 3187 days ago
"prevent the interviewers from seeing the candidate, knowing their name, or hearing their voice"

And what happens representation becomes even more skewed?

The fact is the Valley employs gender/ethnicity almost perfectly commensurate with those graduating with CS degrees.

It's borderline bigoted to imply that 'it's all due to racism'.

Yes, surely there are gender/ethnic issues, but the funnel is 90% of the problem.

There's no fair way to hire 50% females if only 15% of applicants are female.

I get there's 'dynamic feedback' (i.e. more women in tech encourages more younger women in tech) but again, it's the responsibility of people to make choices in life.

I have enough East/South Asian friends to roughly grasp the soft-racism they faced growing up, and they've done very well both as individuals and as a group.

This issue needs nuance and few people are willing to speak in those terms.