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you're a young white male? of course you won't understand, "keep improving yourself" what an elitist thing to say from the IT bubble.. most profession plateau, it doesn't matter if you have 10 or 20 years of experience, even in IT it doesn't.

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I've conducted a lot of job interviews and debriefs at "IT bubble" startups and have not seen anything resembling race/gender bias. Where is this bias happening?

Did you read the article?

Just recently I saw a reddit thread about a black web developer women being paid much less than her coworkers, she overhead her boss talking on the phone about hiring another guy because they have a lot of work, talking about how he affords it, because he pays her so little and he can get away with it, because "what she's going do", "who is going to hire her" a black developer woman.

If she is any goood any of the big companies would take her. There is always a shortage of good talent.

Another lawsuit ITT :-)

There is a definitive bias from older people against startups.

Half of them stop the interview soon after we tell them there are on-call on some week ends.

The other half simple refuse the offer, something to do with the number allegedly.

Can't tell if this is meant to be facetious. If it's not, it seems more like a case of misaligned expectations.

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