My favorite part of this is something I’ve rarely seen implemented in a tech interviewing procedure: blind review of code submissions.
To help keep our bias at bay, we are asking candidates not to add any personally identifiable information to the submission. We will let reviewers know roughly at which level the candidate is and how many years of experience they have, but we will not disclose gender, name, nationaility, geographic location, or which schools or companies they have been through.
Controlling for unconscious bias interviewing for such a communication-heavy position is tough, but I have to think there’s value in doing so. I’m reminded of the recent study showing women’s pull requests acceptance rate is higher when perceived as gender-neutral - I have to think the same sort of behavior would apply to coding problems in interviews.
Any company that strives to do this is to be admired (Although it should be the norm because humans are “programmed” for bias unfortunately, “My clan/your clan”).
My favorite part of this is something I’ve rarely seen implemented in a tech interviewing procedure: blind review of code submissions.
Controlling for unconscious bias interviewing for such a communication-heavy position is tough, but I have to think there’s value in doing so. I’m reminded of the recent study showing women’s pull requests acceptance rate is higher when perceived as gender-neutral - I have to think the same sort of behavior would apply to coding problems in interviews.
Any company that strives to do this is to be admired (Although it should be the norm because humans are “programmed” for bias unfortunately, “My clan/your clan”).