Does an anonymous recruitment process lead to more diverse teams?
Talk from The Lead Developer London 2019
Credit: White October Events, Photos by Drew McLellan
Video sponsor: Formidable (https://formidable.com/) If we want to truly encourage diversity in our industry, we are going to have to listen and respond to feedback from under-represented groups that challenges our assumptions. In 2015, my previous employer Bytemark built a fully-anonymous recruitment process in order to help address issues of hiring bias and to try and attract a diverse range of candidates.