The Halo Effect: Why Attractive People Get Ahead

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I once rejected a brilliant engineering candidate because their resume had a typo.

Not in their work history. Not in their technical skills. In the summary section: “atention to detail” instead of “attention to detail.”

My brain went: “Typo → careless → probably writes buggy code → not a good hire.”

I passed. Another company hired them. They became a principal engineer there and later gave a keynote at a major conference.

Bias on Rafiul Alam