Andala Cafe in Central Square is basically our office-away-from-office. Especially when we’re meeting up with someone after hours, it’s rare to find us anywhere other than the back of Andala with a pot of Sami’s Special on the table. So it wasn’t too unusual to end up there the other afternoon talking to a friend about methods to reduce bias in her company’s hiring process.

She works for a technology startup with offices in Boston and in Eastern Europe, but her situation is a common one across sectors and metro areas. Founder and friends launch organization, succeed and grow, and…