BOURREE LAM, THE ATLANTIC

Humans are biased decision makers. One well-known and troubling example of this is the tendency for interviewers to hire candidates who remind them of themselves, resulting in workplace homogeneity. In the tech sector, this homogeneity has been particularly extreme: Google’s first ever diversity report, released last year, reported only 2 percent of its staff are black, and 3 percent Hispanic, for example.

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