Jon Pretty

Some contrarian advice for job candidates: don't try to improve your interview technique. If you're genuinely a good candidate, it shouldn't be in your interests to be hired by a company that would be easily fooled by anything so superficial as "good interview technique".

Agreed, but this will come off as "white guy advice" If I can add anything I'll be: "Have confidence. You have value. Realize and express that."

That sounds racist

I think that if it refered to an historically-oppressed race instead, it might be. It's a significant difference.

I meant the opposite. Maybe I misunderstood but I thought he meant that your advice of being yourself might not work for non-white people

I think he's alluding to the privilege I, as a white man, have in being able to presume that an interviewer would judge me fairly. So I think he's saying both... ;) Though that does back up my original point: you probably don't want to get hired by a company which does that.

Exactly. Any company that's racist against blacks is not a company a black person would probably want to work for. But I don't know any such company, do you? IMO the premise of the "white privilege" lie is racist. I don't believe white privilege exists, systemically at least.