New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It

Re:New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It by wellpast on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:45PM (#20141030)

> The point is, just because a filter allows the right people through doesn’t mean it’s necessarily any good.

I define “good” and “right people” to be that which produces efficiency, quality, innovation in the business. So a good filter to me is good wrt these outcomes.

The industry is starving for ‘good people’ and ‘good outcomes’ and we should work to optimize this imo.

Any other measure divorced from outcome to me seems... weird.

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Re:New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It by pmiller2 on Sunday June 09, 2019 @03:42PM (#20141414)

I wish I could talk about our recruiting funnel numbers. It is the farthest thing from efficient.

Triplebyte claims the industry average onsite pass rate is in the neighborhood of 30% (https://triplebyte.com/blog/12-000-engineers-evaluated). I suspect that the huge majority of those who fail onsites get jobs. Is that efficient?

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Re:New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It by wellpast on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:00AM (#20146786)

I’m advocating for improving that efficiency if it is indeed improvable (my intuition says it is by a large margin.)

What I’m saying is that the notion of ‘fairness’ should have little relevance to improving this side of things.

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