Is Blind Hiring the Best Hiring?

[Recursion]

1. "Rock star" is always a red flag for me

First off, great article, and thanks for posting it. As a side point, from a tech person:

"Rock star" is always a huge red flag, almost as bad as "ninja". It means they want someone who will work too long for too little money. Part of me thinks some of the difference is that most women have more sense than that.

One of the best experiences I've had in tech was hiring people, because I was somehow given a free hand to ignore HR's bullet lists and could actually just pick people with good problem-solving and improvisation skills (I'm in ops, though, which is different from dev, and dev seems to need the checklists more; they're absolutely ludicrous in ops, though).

Another red flag is "full-stack", which means "we have no idea what systems we are running anymore". But that's not a deal-breaker, it just makes me look sideways for a bit.