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I am sharing this experience from my job during 2008. We tried to hire our first female engineer. She cleared all the interviews. We gave her a tour of our comp
by mandeepj 10y ago
I am sharing this experience from my job during 2008. We tried to hire our first female engineer. She cleared all the interviews. We gave her a tour of our company and showed her future work location. At the end, she listed down few reasons and declined to join. I don't remember all the reasons she mentioned. Would you like to know what I remember? As I cannot forget this one. She said one of the reasons she can't join is - there is no other female. I wish someone told her - "you start from somewhere".
- guantanamo_bob 10y agoThat's a fair point, but in an interview she's also assessing you. If she sees no other women working there, then it could be a red flag. From her perspective no other women could signal that all the other women left, or all other women interviewing noticed something bad that she missed.
- mandeepj 10y agoMay be I missed mentioning this. For whatever reason, we never had a female engineer in that company. Either too few applied or whoever applied did not made it to job offer.