Been running an advert for a senior developer position for a few weeks now and it's something we've been struggling to recruit for because the specific market were in is seeing insane demand at the minute and people are getting snapped up all over the place on ever-increasing contracts. So we're getting pretty desperate to recruit.
The listing ended last night so today I sat down to sift through the applicants and find a handful to invite to interview.
As I'm going through I realise I'm getting a sinking feeling whenever I realise someone is either:
- A woman
- Indian
- Too old.
So even though I'm in desperate need of developers, I'm consciously scouring their applications for reasons not to invite them to interviews. Stuff like "Hmmmm well they haven't filled in much detail there, I'll score them down" or "We're looking for someone who can really take a lead on projects here and they don't really demonstrate they're able to do that."
Then someone who's clearly around my age, doesn't mention anything about kids, or husbands, or any university of Tehran or Punjabistan or whatever I'll see something like" Delivered multiple .NET Core MVC projects" and be like "Yeah, yeah this guy fits the bill."
Then at the end, I check my scores and none of the women or Indians have made it through.
Hopefully this makes you aware of your own unconscious biases. I always thought I wasn't a racist or sexist, but if I'm unconsciously sifting them out at the application stage perhaps am I racist or am I proactively avoiding problematic workers further down the line?
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.net huh? Is this an internal project? I was a .net dev and it went from popular to never used except internally. I've been tinkering with Python and I can see why it's so popular. Need to call an API? 1 line of code in Python. 10 lines and bloat in .net lol But through my work travels I noticed that it's ingrained in legacy systems like payment systems so nobody wants to touch it. I know Bank of America uses it too.
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.NET Core which is better but I don't think it's catching on as much as expected but yeah maintaining and creating a bunch of internal interfaces and reporting portals which are built on it.
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Cool. I learned coding on Classic ASP so .NET was the natural progression for me. I have been out of that world for 7 years but try to keep up with what's going on because who knows what could happen.
Good luck on your hiring. o7 My only "no" would be anyone who puts pronouns on their resume.
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