[sokoloff]

I wonder how much of that is like-me bias with the risk that 3 short interviews might get us (even) more homogenous employee populations?

[bradlys]

I rarely have encountered an employer that is truly - actively - trying to avoid like-me bias. If they were even remotely successful, your interviews wouldn't almost always be constructed of 3 races... and various teams at orgs wouldn't have such wildly lopsided demographics.

[sokoloff]

Wouldn’t entire elimination of irrelevant bias mean that teams would have wildly varying demographics?

If I have 16 teams of 4 people each, I should probably expect to find an all female team and an all male team, if we assume that gender has no bearing on individual performance or on team selection and that gender bias was entirely removed, leaving the gender of each team member to a coin flip?

Similarly, I’d expect to find a fair number of teams who all had O+ blood type today, as I think we do not discriminate on that basis.

[bradlys]

Team size is going to be important to note. The teams I'm talking about are frequently near 10 or more members.

As your point becomes more important as the size gets smaller. If it were all teams of 1 then each time would have incredible bias...

[pdimitar]

> I wonder how much of that is like-me bias

I am just crawling out of 4 months of hell of interviews and homeworks. And I can tell you: probably 90% of it. :(

[XargonEnder]

How can I appear more like my interviewer in those first 20 seconds?