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Blendoor – App launched by Stephanie Lampkin to remove potential employer bias
Stephanie Lampkin learned to code at age 13. By 15, she was a full-stack web developer, fluent in the languages of computer programming. She has a Stanford engineering degree and an MBA from MIT.
Still, she recalls making it to the eighth round of interviews in pursuit of a gig at a well-known tech firm in Silicon Valley, only to be told her background wasn’t “technical enough” for a role in software engineering.
she wonders about that early rejection, and whether being a young African American woman hurt her chances.
Lampkin is on track to launching a job matching tool aimed at removing just that sort of lingering doubt from the tech sector job hunt.
Her app Blendoor lets job seekers upload resumes, then hides their name and photo from employers. The idea, says Lampkin, is to circumvent unconscious bias by removing gender and ethnicity from the equation.
Read more: Forbes