Unconscious biases have a surprisingly high impact on how we evaluate candidates for a job position. Here are a few best practices for making the recruiting process more impartial and transparent. — con·fir·ma·tion bi·as: the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one’s existing beliefs or theories.

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Hiring in tech has had its flaws but the tech industry has always been open to critique and improvement. Does anyone remember the brain teasers of the 2000s? Their are flaws that still exists in using correlation and confirmation bias to unintentionally exclude good candidates. Let’s just take a few…

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The best UX solves are ones that seemed hard at first but when the solution finally comes out its obvious to everyone. I was the iOS engineering lead (now the web lead) for Level Money. It’s a budgeting app that divides your discretionary spending up by the days in the…

In recent years there has been growing perception that unit tests are the single best way to have useful code. Notice that I say useful code, not stable code. Having stable code is a misnomer. What we want is useful code. Useful code both works properly and provides something of…

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