<story><title>U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-usa-labor-idUSKBN1522O6?il=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>Would you kindly do the willingly and explain how? :)</text></item><item><author>bubbleRefuge</author><text>Well, I can tell the way sentences are formed in many cases if I&amp;#x27;m dealing with a native speaker or not.</text></item><item><author>rudolf0</author><text>Well, for one, you can hide contact info from a resume (which is still stored in a system somewhere, with a unique ID).&lt;p&gt;And you can also make the early stages of your interview email or text-chat based (or just a Google Doc, like some companies do), to eliminate any potential bias in things that can be inferred from voice like accent, region, and gender.&lt;p&gt;Obviously once they&amp;#x27;re on-site for an interview, you can&amp;#x27;t anonymize much anymore, but anonymizing every stage before that seems like a win-win to me (excluding potential costs of implementing the system).</text></item><item><author>grepthisab</author><text>When you say anonymous, how do you mean it? As in: the interviewer meets face-to-face without a resume in front of them, or the interviewer has a resume but the interview is done over the phone, or a phone interview with no resume?</text></item><item><author>tabeth</author><text>Couple points:&lt;p&gt;First, this is where the meat is: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;ofccp&amp;#x2F;ofccp20170118-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;ofccp&amp;#x2F;ofccp20170118-0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...Oracle nevertheless preferred Asian applications over other qualified applicants in the Professional Technical 1, Individual Contributor Job group and in the Product Development job group at statistically significant rates.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;newsreleases&amp;#x2F;OFCCP20170071.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;newsrelease...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I&amp;#x27;m naive, but I&amp;#x27;ll say it again and again until someone with influence hears me: large companies should do anonymous interviewing. I&amp;#x27;ve interviewed with Oracle, Cisco, and many of the &amp;quot;old corporate-y&amp;quot; companies. There&amp;#x27;s ZERO reason the interview process can&amp;#x27;t be completely anonymized. Their interviews (from my limited experience) are completely impersonal and done on an ad-hoc basis anyway.&lt;p&gt;That being said, it seems this issue may be more of an H1B1 issue, which inherently cannot be made anonymous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gotrecruit</author><text>You mean do the needful?</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-usa-labor-idUSKBN1522O6?il=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>Would you kindly do the willingly and explain how? :)</text></item><item><author>bubbleRefuge</author><text>Well, I can tell the way sentences are formed in many cases if I&amp;#x27;m dealing with a native speaker or not.</text></item><item><author>rudolf0</author><text>Well, for one, you can hide contact info from a resume (which is still stored in a system somewhere, with a unique ID).&lt;p&gt;And you can also make the early stages of your interview email or text-chat based (or just a Google Doc, like some companies do), to eliminate any potential bias in things that can be inferred from voice like accent, region, and gender.&lt;p&gt;Obviously once they&amp;#x27;re on-site for an interview, you can&amp;#x27;t anonymize much anymore, but anonymizing every stage before that seems like a win-win to me (excluding potential costs of implementing the system).</text></item><item><author>grepthisab</author><text>When you say anonymous, how do you mean it? As in: the interviewer meets face-to-face without a resume in front of them, or the interviewer has a resume but the interview is done over the phone, or a phone interview with no resume?</text></item><item><author>tabeth</author><text>Couple points:&lt;p&gt;First, this is where the meat is: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;ofccp&amp;#x2F;ofccp20170118-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;ofccp&amp;#x2F;ofccp20170118-0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...Oracle nevertheless preferred Asian applications over other qualified applicants in the Professional Technical 1, Individual Contributor Job group and in the Product Development job group at statistically significant rates.&amp;quot; [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;newsreleases&amp;#x2F;OFCCP20170071.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dol.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;newsrelease...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I&amp;#x27;m naive, but I&amp;#x27;ll say it again and again until someone with influence hears me: large companies should do anonymous interviewing. I&amp;#x27;ve interviewed with Oracle, Cisco, and many of the &amp;quot;old corporate-y&amp;quot; companies. There&amp;#x27;s ZERO reason the interview process can&amp;#x27;t be completely anonymized. Their interviews (from my limited experience) are completely impersonal and done on an ad-hoc basis anyway.&lt;p&gt;That being said, it seems this issue may be more of an H1B1 issue, which inherently cannot be made anonymous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty easy, but also pretty rough - if you&amp;#x27;re good, you can certainly distinguish between an American, a British or an Indian English-speaking person writing.</text></comment>