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FullMtlAlcoholc on Feb 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The power of role models

I think his post was that we should challenge our cognitive biases and the male-oriented geek culture.

For example, after some members of the team have interviewed a potential candidate for hire, we get together to discuss our observations on him/her. We were choosing between two people and the female, IMO, wrote much cleaner code. The team decided to go with the guy because "he fit the culture better".

What this meant was he and 2 of the other interviewers talked about League of Legends for 10 minutes and he wore a "hilarious" graphic t-shirt.

watwut on Feb 25, 2017 [–]

Even if the two applicants were guys, that decision process is still wrong and has nothing to do with "meritocracy".

FullMtlAlcoholc on Feb 26, 2017 | [–]

> has nothing to do with "meritocracy".

My point exactly. This is very common in hiring practices where "culture" fit is most important.

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