Redefining "The Best:" ...
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Title claims that hiring needs redefining and supplies the specifics: interviews with founders and head recruiters plus shadowing a CODE2040 cohort show hiring heuristics — social networks, educational pedigree, prior-employer prestige — produce homogeneity despite broader learning pathways. The talk documents an emerging class of algorithmic recommendation recruiters that scrape online behavior, decouple degrees from competency, and risk discriminatory profile optimization, “21st century redlining,” amplification of harassment signals, and offloading moral responsibility to opaque systems.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:42Silicon, we have a problem
- 1:17Tech's myth of meritocracy
- 2:30Three Simple Questions
- 3:10CODE2040 Summer Fellows
- 4:01Education is the solution to inequality!
- 7:01Biases at the "top of the funnel"
- 7:41Tech heuristics closely associated with specific gatekeepers
- 8:49Entrenched homogeneity
- 10:28A New Gatekeeper: The Algorithm
- 11:27Potential Benefits
- 13:00Potential Risks
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