&gt; This may happen in other jobs, but in my 20 years in tech, I have never seen this.<p>I&#x27;ve been in Tech about 25 to 30 years. I&#x27;m sad to report that I have seen it happen a time or two in tech. But what I will say... is that before I went into &quot;pure&quot; tech, it happened in other fields in a much more overt manner.<p>I was a peon at DDB Needham in Chicago a long time ago and was talking to a friend of mine when one of the VP&#x27;s came into her cube. The VP wanted her to go through the resumes and circular file all of the ones who were black. My friend asked how would she know if they were black... the woman said &quot;Oh... you&#x27;ll know. Look at the names.&quot;<p>As it happened some other friends of mine were talking about starting a company using this really cool thing called &quot;WinSock&quot; to do networking. So I went home that night and joined them. I&#x27;d had enough of the BigCo lifestyle. Two really good exits later ... here I am. So I really ought to thank that VP lady.<p>I ran into that attitude a couple of times in tech over the 25 or so years since then... but not NEARLY as often as when I was doing the BigCo thing. It does happen though. And I tended to run away from those people as fast and as far as I could.