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Bias doesn’t start with skin color.
Reading Time: 8 minutesLook around your office. If you’re in tech, I suspect I can predict what you see: lots of white faces. We’ve known tech to be a sea of white faces for a long time. Big companies...
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Adding Members to Your Software Team
Reading Time: 8 minutesCongratulations! Your startup is taking off, or it’s time to accelerate the pace of your internal project or consulting work. It’s time to hire more people to join your team. You...
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How your Dudebros are Losing You Money: The Microcosmic Impact of Inclusion...
Reading Time: 7 minutesI once talked about why your selection process gives advantages to some applicants based on ethnicity and gender. That post assumes that readers want to have a diverse workplace,...
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“Smart” is Not a Hiring Criterion
Reading Time: 8 minutesYou might expect this post to be a case against ill-defined hiring criteria like smart or assertive. While that is also a tech hiring scourge that I hate, this post is not about...
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Why Your Efforts to Fix your Pipeline Aren’t Fixing Your Pipeline
Reading Time: 16 minutes WARNING: This post speaks frankly about race and gender dynamics. I use the term ‘white men’ on several occasions. If that feels to you like a personal attack, I do not...
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Questions for Prospective Managers
Reading Time: 12 minutes“Here’s something they’ll probably never teach you in business school: The single biggest decision you make in your job—bigger than all the rest—is who you name manager. When...
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Hiring for Fit
Reading Time: 8 minutes What does it mean for a hiring candidate to be a good fit? We often lean on an unfortunate proxy answer: “Is this candidate like the hiring manager?” We then gravitate toward...
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