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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by Const-me on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:58PM (#16498309)
Blind hiring _might_ work: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-blind-hiring-...

To ignore gender this should be combined with gender-neutral voice processing for phone interviews, but it’s doable and not that hard.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by friedButter on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:43AM (#16500709)
These guys tried it out, I'll leave the interpretation of the conclusion to the reader

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas...

(yes, its inconclusive, but)

> for technical ability, it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women. Though these trends weren’t statistically significant, I am mentioning them because they were unexpected and definitely something to watch for as we collect more data.

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by spicymaki on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:22PM (#16498725)
What if the candidate went to Wellesley or Howard? What happens if the person went to university in Africa or Latin America? What if you puts SWE or NSBE on the resume, or obtained a merit-based UNCF scholarship and mentioned that as an achievement? The blind hiring system would fall flat pretty quickly.

What happens after the person is hired?

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