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From the article: "After drawing on data from thousands of technical interviews, it’s become clear to us that technical interviewing is a process whose results
by throwaway729 10y ago
From the article:
"After drawing on data from thousands of technical interviews, it’s become clear to us that technical interviewing is a process whose results are nondeterministic and often arbitrary. We believe that technical interviewing is a broken process for everyone but that the flaws within the system hit underrepresented groups the hardest… because they haven’t had the chance to internalize just how much of technical interviewing is a numbers game"
- flukus 10y ago> because they haven’t had the chance to internalize just how much of technical interviewing is a numbers game Which means the barrier is themselves, not discrimination.
- Pyxl101 10y agoI have not read the entire article, but claiming that the process is nondeterministic is not the same as claiming that the process is discriminating unfairly by gender. If everyone plays the lottery, then some people will win randomly. Certainly if a hiring causes people to "win randomly", then it's not a good hiring process -- but neither is it a process that discriminates on gender. The article goes on to explain that, although people's interview performance is subject to variance from interview to interview, it does seem that interview performance is clustered around a person's average.