Utopia Talk / Politics / duckduckgo wont hire white men

Sam Adams Member	Mon Sep 27 16:47:01 ...but if you change your name and reapply as a black lesbian... you are in. http://mob...dad/status/1442280751517499403
kargen Member	Mon Sep 27 17:25:00 So do I have to be a black lesbian or can I just identify as one?
murder Member	Mon Sep 27 19:24:37 How is this not electronic blackface? Cancel that guy! ;o)
tumbleweed the wanderer	Mon Sep 27 20:57:45 the white guy asks to talk about blockchain, that’s like ‘would you like to hear about Jesus?’
nhill Member	Mon Sep 27 23:42:27 I hire people for these roles (iOS developer) at billion dollar companies as a consultant. Despite the guy on the right having obvious spelling and grammatical errors, I would have been more interested in moving him to the next step. The spelling and grammatical errors don't really matter if he knows what retain/release are and how to use manual memory management. And the rest just shows me that he's passionate about the company. As much as I'd like to join on the bandwagon here, there was no unfair bias done by DuckDuckGo, simply standard hiring practices. You have no idea how hard it is to find someone competent and *passionate* about software development (are you passionate and qualified? I can get you hired today). Grammar issues I can fix.
nhill Member	Mon Sep 27 23:44:07 Honestly, the grammar and spelling errors are kind of endearing. I have to read hundreds of resumes and almost all of them have the droll tone of the left one. Of course, it's a red flag about attention to detail, which I would dig into when we bring the person on site or perform a technical phone interview.
nhill Member	Mon Sep 27 23:45:02 But if you think you need perfect grammar to code ... then you ain't a coder. Stay in your lane.
nhill Member	Tue Sep 28 00:41:19 Note: I'm not saying DuckDuckGo *doesn't* have a no white male policy. Don't know, don't care. Merely pointing out that the person writing the tweet was an idiot that doesn't understand how hiring managers review resumes and therefore the tweet itself is a huge nothing burger.
TheChildren Member	Tue Sep 28 01:17:10 BUHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Good!!! now whitey knows how it feels unlike all nonwhites where this is simply part of daily realitiez. bitches
Cherub Cow Member	Tue Sep 28 01:26:25 Not to mention that the left résumé was *also* littered with grammatical errors — some of which were on display in that screen-shot via squiggly lines. It also has pointless dead-ends and asks too much; it basically gives the résumé-reader homework tasks, since the person responding may be obligated to answer those questions in their response. It also basically threatens DuckDuckGo that if they act like Google then this would-be employee will be dissatisfied.. that was a wasted opportunity to say that DuckDuckGo is the best thing ever — which the résumé on the right *did*. It also does not even answer some of the questions.. E.g., the answer to "Tell us about a performance problem in an application or library you've worked on" does not quickly identify the problem and how it was solved — it pontificates uselessly. The one on the right — while flighty — quickly identifies the problem and how it was solved (iOS and Android were not properly wrapping, so they solved by using Xamarin). It mentions the problem and solution so quickly that the résumé could even come off as a savant: give them a problem, and they'll solve it with no issues. The one on the left.. will pat themselves on the back while not even identifying the problem ("impractical"? So it was slow and you sped it up? That could be condensed to one strong sentence: "While tasked with a program which had slow performance bridging from Swift's String type to NSString, I re-wrote the entire markdown editor in Objective-C, improving performance by over [x]%"). And! Notice that the right résumé "dropped experience down to 5 years".. but **kept the exact same job history of 12 years**. Now you're talking about someone who is humble; they have been working for 12 years but only feel that they've been in the "industry" for 5. That's a passionate person: they feel that they broke into the industry after putting in 7 years of work. TLDR: The person on the right, even though being of the woke cancer, seems like a positive and happy problem-solver. The person on the left seems like an activist circumlocutor whom people will avoid if they have problems and whom management will worry will whistleblow on them if they act like Google. I would have put the left résumé in the "if desperate" pile.
Cherub Cow Member	Tue Sep 28 01:27:47 My "not to mention" was supposed to follow nhill's post; took too long.
nhill Member	Tue Sep 28 01:41:09 Good points, CC. I had a hard time reading the résumé on the left it was so boring. XD
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