An anonymous posting on the professional forum TeamBlind has gone viral after a technology professional said that many months of applications went nowhere until he changed his name. The poster wrote that his original résumé, which carried a "very Chinese" name, yielded automated rejection emails only, despite meeting all stated job requirements and having his résumé reviewed by a career coach. Then he changed it to a more American-sounding alias, "James Bright," and received three interview invitations for job openings from companies that had rejected him.

The techie said he did not need visa sponsorship and was a U.S. citizen, but still suspected his ethnic-sounding name was a problem. "I am lost and I don't know what to do anymore," he wrote. "If I go on with the interviews, they're goi

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