[TheDong]

> When a few teammates and I interview folks ... simply "good energy". The opposite of it would be "looks tired".

At our office, we have the more normal term of "easy to communicate" and "good culture fit" and so on.

"Culture fit" seems like a slightly more convenient term for applying ingrained racist and sexist biases, but I guess saying any applicants who don't match your racial or socioeconomic background seem "tired" works well too!

I think "looks tired" is also even more convenient for ageism than the usual "that old person didn't seem like a good culture fit".

I know this is a really negative interpretation of what you're saying, but in my experience those sorts of things really are used to filter out people who aren't like you. People of different races, people who have young kids and are thus naturally tired, people who have lazy eyes, people with minor speech impediments. All of those people coincidentally have higher rates of being bad culture fits and looking tired.

I wonder if pg would think those people are earnest or not.

[lambdatronics]

>I think "looks tired" is also even more convenient for ageism than the usual "that old person didn't seem like a good culture fit".

See, this is why I don't think AI will catch on for making hiring decisions... not because it's going to be biased, but because it can be audited for bias & then corrected for it.