I’ve recently developed a fairly strong anti-FAANG bias. It would be easy to hide this bias based on their pattern of employment history. Their employment terms make it extremely rational to leave after 4 years, so telling myself a story around that as a hiring criteria (eg “only people uncommitted to an idea leave every 4 years”) would make it easy for me to make my bias into a supposedly rational hiring criteria.
Instead, I just don’t look at resumes. I don’t ask about job history and I don’t bring it up in interviews. Rather, I create a rubric based on something I can judge outside of a resume and stick to that. This is frustrating! I myself have a long resume. I’d like to not have to explain it over and over again and expertise is a thing! But the rubric can account for this without pattern matching against a persons career history, and must or you fall into the bias trap.
Instead, I just don’t look at resumes. I don’t ask about job history and I don’t bring it up in interviews. Rather, I create a rubric based on something I can judge outside of a resume and stick to that. This is frustrating! I myself have a long resume. I’d like to not have to explain it over and over again and expertise is a thing! But the rubric can account for this without pattern matching against a persons career history, and must or you fall into the bias trap.