Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
by mzw_mzw on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:03PM
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> US corporations have a multi-hundred year history of using thinly veiled proxies for race as part of their hiring practices. This continues to this day, including in the tech industry.
That's a pretty serious accusation, one that could spark a lot of successful lawsuits against those companies -- especially in the current political climate in the states they tend to be located in. Do you have any specific evidence to back it up?
Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
by Alex3917 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:06PM
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Google won't you apply to work there without giving your college GPA, despite the fact that all the academic research, and also their own internal research, shows that GPA doesn't correlate at all with job performance.
C.f. what Malcom Gladwell has to say about this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQC3EzDGr4
Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
by CydeWeys on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:58AM
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I don't think Google is asking for GPA anymore. Not for experienced hires, anyway. I can imagine they might still ask it for interns and college hires, where it's relevant. But they didn't ask me two years ago (I was seven years out of university at the time).
Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
by mzw_mzw on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:16PM
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That... that's your evidence that Google are a bunch of racists? Because they want to know how well applicants did in college?
Okay, then. Good luck with the lawsuits.
Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
by tekromancr on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:15PM
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Well, INAL, but maybe that actually might be a good standing for a disparate impact suit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
Using GPA as a screening measure when members of a racial demographic routinely preform more poorly due to socioeconomic factors, it starts to look more like a proxy for race.
It's not exactly that far fetched to think that someone might someday think it's a good idea to start applying some of those new AI APIs to the candidate interview videos just to see what happens. In fact given enough time and enough departments/companies, it frankly seems more likely than not.
Especially given that we already have AI scouring GitHub looking for people to recruit. Assuming it's not already happening, it seems unlikely that there won't be startups applying AI to hiring interview videos within the next couple years.