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When I said that I do not make hiring decisions without input from my team because I know that I have internalized biases, and experience and research have shown that they come in despite our best efforts, Dude (cis white straight man) told me that I am just underselling myself.

He thinks that learning from my past mistakes and listening to others to overcome my own flaws are weaknesses and symptoms of impostor syndrome.

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This is actually somewhat hilarious because my strongest known biases are against people like Dude and it totally showed up when I was evaluating Dude during his interview. We hired him anyway because all the other candidates accepted better offers.

(This is actually not hilarious because Dude is one of the people I report to and this was during a meeting about how we can hire more people who aren't white.)

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