[spuzz]

IDK about this guy, maybe just trolling, but when I was hiring I realized you can really tell from indirect information. Name and college name will give you a real strong guess.

It was weird because I was just trying to avoid h1-b applicants since I was told we weren't doing that, but I quickly realized that I was optimizing against indian people and also that taking bias out of the hiring process is a lie that HR tells itself for legal liability reasons.

[nextos]

AFAIK, he is not trolling. Right now, in Academia, there is a very strong movement towards hiring diversity candidates.

For example, some faculty openings are advertised as women or minorities only.

In EU, some have sued and successfully overturned this kind of bias, as it is in principle not legal to discriminate by sex or race.

[uriah]

Yeah, you can’t really filter based on resume without risking legal liability. There are plenty of people who look like they would need a visa sponsorship but don’t necessarily (e.g. spouses of H1B or green card holders)

[UncleOxidant]

...or children of Indian immigrants.