<p>Oh, people definitely make immediate assumptions based on names. I have an extremely ethnic name that may be hard to pronounce at a first glance, so it happened multiple times that when someone first saw my name before meeting me in person, after talking for a while, the comment I would get is, “Wow, you have no accent!” or something along the lines of “wow you can speak English properly!” in a tone of astonishment. It’s not hard to imagine what kinds of assumption they made before we met. I honestly wouldn’t want them to be the ones in the position of hiring me.</p>
<p>The OP may be a bit extreme, but sadly I can see where he’s coming from.</p>