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There has also been a study showing tech interviews went less favorable for women when their voices were masked as male voices. As for "Girls Who Code" as PR -
by facepalm 10y ago
There has also been a study showing tech interviews went less favorable for women when their voices were masked as male voices.
As for "Girls Who Code" as PR - does it increase the popularity of these firms with male coders, too? My personal impression with Google is that they are not interested in hiring male coders anymore...
- tomlock 10y ago>>My personal impression with Google is that they are not interested in hiring male coders anymore... I can't think of many scenarios that would give you that impression. Did google personally reject you for being a man?
- facepalm 10y agoFor the last two years I have only seen ads with exclusively female engineers from Google, for example the "I look like an engineer" series. I haven't seen any effort to attract male talent. Of course having more women on the team will probably make a company more attractive to men, but I doubt that is the only thing they should bank on to attract men.
- tomlock 10y agoI think over the past two years I've seen a sum total of one video about working at Google, and it featured a woman and a man. From what you're saying I can only assume I stumbled on a super rare video. Is that accurate?
- facepalm 10y agoI'll include a link to my paper where I use the method of autoethnography to show how Google has turned into a misandryst megacorporation. Just kidding - I didn't write a paper about it, nor did I conduct a rigorous study. Most of the Google Ads I have seen came via various Google Twitter accounts, like https://twitter.com/lifeatgoogle https://twitter.com/lifeatgoogle (Life at Google seems to be dedicated to hiring people for Google). So my filter bubble might be to blame. I haven't seen the video you mentioned which features a man. (Edit: I just scrolled through the first several dozen tweets from "Life At Google - I think there is definitely a bias to only show female engineers there.... However, it is of course only one Google Twitter account dedicated to hiring, I don't know how many others exist. Maybe it was created explicitly to target women and minorities, but then maybe they should somehow say so).