decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first … conduct independent one-to-one interviews and give individual recommendations before deliberating on a collective hiring … decision. We find that committees' final hiring decisions are systematically less aligned with the initial recommendations of …

large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring processes, where candidates are quasi-randomly assigned to evaluators …' votes of up to 40% and distorting final admission and hiring decisions. Our findings are in line with a contrast effect …