Only hiring MIT graduates sounds great to a lot of tech folks! Automatically rejecting applicants from HBCUs, however, sounds like a lawsuit

As to GPA thing, I think it's just to stop the LLM glomming onto an obvious numerical grade? LLMs like to rank things by obvious dimensions, and whether someone had a 4.0 or a 3.8 in grad school makes very little difference to their performance 10 years down the line.

> But it didn’t. After the company trained the algorithm on 10 years of its own hiring data, the algorithm reportedly became biased against female applicants. The word “women,” like in women’s sports, would cause the algorithm to specifically rank applicants lower. After Amazon engineers attempted to fix that problem, the algorithm still wasn’t up to snuff and the project was ended.

And in another org:

> After an audit of the algorithm, the resume screening company found that the algorithm found two factors to be most indicative of job performance: their name was Jared, and whether they played high school lacrosse. Girouard’s client did not use the tool.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/11/1243713272/resume-bias-study-...

> Their working paper, published this month and titled "A Discrimination Report Card," found that the typical employer called back the presumably white applicants around 9% more than Black ones. That number rose to roughly 24% for the worst offenders.

It'll discriminate by proxy, basically.

Just kidding, my resumes are sent to /dev/null like everybody else’s.

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1: In fact, I will be controversial and say that self-taught engineers tend to be the strongest in their own particular niche, because they are powered by sheer desire to learn and improve. I am routinely appalled by how many people go on forums to ask how to learn a new thing, completely unable to self-direct their learning. I blame the modern school system.