https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1905.01989/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30056792urn:hackerpapers:mention:1905.01989:30056792Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:25:47 GMT<p>I work as a machine learning engineer on search &amp; recommender systems, mostly focused on relevancy ranking in the recruiting space. It&#x27;s unbelievable the pressure I have encountered to give &quot;diverse&quot; candidates a boost across the board in our scoring algorithms. Almost every client&#x27;s talent acquisition team has asked what we can do to help them meet their diversity goals (which they loosely define as hiring more women and non-white / Asian people). I keep up with what some of the major players are doing (LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.), and they come straight out and say they preferentially weight…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1905.01989/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.IR