Here’s an idea from the radical left:
If you’re going to ask job applicants to do a coding test, arrange for the tests to be judged blindly.
When musician’s unions became a thing in classical music, they insisted on blind auditions for orchestras. And behold, the number of women in prestigious orchestras shot up.
Before working on unconcious bias, eliminate its opportunity outright.
https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/blind-auditions-orchestras-gender-bias
@raganwald Are you willing to accept *all* candidates who come out the best on a blind audition? There is a now famous story of a CS conference who thought they were doing the right thing by selecting their speakers based on blind submissions. They then got a lot of hurt feelings on all sides when one of the invited presenters was notorious for his misogynistic social media posts.
I think there is a place for blind auditions, but there needs to be some fully transparent screenings before candidates are invited to audition.
@anubis2814 @raganwald Ricci v. DeStefano has set a clear process that you screen for acceptable candidates first then hold blind evaluations like test or auditions. You do not want a candidate who scored best on your blind test coming back and using that fact in a discrimination suit.
