That FC article skims past, but doesn't quite touch on a very important point that's very central to the article: > Silicon Valley companies are going after th

That FC article skims past, but doesn't quite touch on a very important point that's very central to the article: > Silicon Valley companies are going after the same small pool of nonwhite, nonmale candidates There's a limited pool of female software engineers and of non-white-or-asian software engineers. Universities are only graduating so many women, somewhere around the rate that Pinterest is hiring (~20%), if you hire more than this, you're just making sure that other companies can only have less than 20% women. The change needs to start at the bottom, there need to be more women doing software engineering at university. You can't just hire all of the existing pool of female software engineers, or black software engineers, and then call yourself diverse, and shame on all the companies that now have only 5% female engineers.