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Diverse Software Engineers Podcast - Confessions of a Biased Manager - How to avoid biases hurting your chances of success!

Confessions of a Biased Manager - How to avoid biases hurting your chances of success!

Diverse Software Engineers Podcast

07/16/21 • 25 min

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Live far away from the office? Have an accent? These are some examples of how you can be unfairly rejected from a position. Have you been rejected because of these things? I suspect I had, and I can imagine that is true for many of you. Bias are pervasive and sometimes even well meaning managers, such as myself, who have worked as a software engineer manager for years, have committed in the past.

In this episode I confess to some of these biases and expose how some questions fester biases. Then Fatima and I will show you ways to overcome them, so you can obtain fulfilling positions and careers.

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07/16/21 • 25 min

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Diverse Software Engineers Podcast - Confessions of a Biased Manager - How to avoid biases hurting your chances of success!

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Eric Lau

Live far away from the office? Have an accent? These are some examples of how you can be unfairly rejected from a position. Have you been rejected because of these things? I suspect I had. And I imagine that is true for many of you.

Eric Lau

biases are pervasive, and sometimes even well meaning managers, such as myself, who have worked as a software engineer manager for years have committed in the past.

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