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The great displacement is already well underway?

(shawnfromportland.substack.com)
512 points JSLegendDev | 1 comments | 12 May 25 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.397s | source
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hackingonempty ◴[13 May 25 18:17 UTC] No.43975980[source]▶
I think your name is unduly handicapping you. Since it is only a single letter people reading your resume think you are being coy and trashing it.

On you resume, change your name to "Shawn Kay." Wait until you're doing HR paperwork to use your legal name.

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1. pjc50 ◴[14 May 25 08:41 UTC] No.43982303[source]▶
Unfortunately there's probably something in this. "People don't discriminate based on name" probably belongs in the "falsehoods programmers believe about names" list.

There's lots of evidence of recruiters and sometimes AIs discriminating against female names, "foreign" names, low-status names and so on.