Confessions of a Biased Manager - How to avoid biases hurting your chances of success!
Diverse Software Engineers Podcast07/16/21 • 25 min
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
Diverse Software Engineers Podcast - Confessions of a Biased Manager - How to avoid biases hurting your chances of success!
Transcript
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 Laubiases 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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