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by pyrocat 4279 days ago
Since there is a well documented hiring[1] bias against people with both female-sounding-names and non-white-sounding names, I think anonymized applications is an amazing idea! So many people never make it to even a phone screen because of insidious biases.

[1] seriously, so many examples, https://www.google.com/search?q=research+bias+hiring+names