Re:Ask HN: How to deal with female name on resume?
by ellisv on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @03:35PM
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Do you want to work at a company where it matters?
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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with female name on resume?
by Qualman on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:04PM
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A thousand times this. It makes me sad that you have to worry about this :(. But if there's that strong a bias against your name, you probably don't want to end up actually being present there.
My advice, working at an enterprise SaaS company: stick to your guns, and be proud of your name! Good companies (like ours :) ) are actively seeking women for technical positions to correct the bias.
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with female name on resume?
by erroneousfunk on Thursday July 02, 2015 @12:13PM
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What's the name of your company?
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with female name on resume?
by jobposter1234 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:24PM
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The fear is that it happens at a subconscious level. Most people have subtle (latent) biases against disadvantaged groups.
A perfectly awesome to work at company might be doing this out of ignorance, not because they would be a bad place for OP to work.