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"Some time ago, major European symphonic orchestras recognized that their hiring process was bugged, and began to hold blind auditions. The hiring rate for wome
by plinkplonk 10y ago
"Some time ago, major European symphonic orchestras recognized that their hiring process was bugged, and began to hold blind auditions. The hiring rate for women jumped substantially everywhere this was done."
which would seem to go against actively selecting people of a specific gender or trying to achieves a fifty percent representation of women or whatever.
I don't think anyone objects to the programming equivalent of a 'blind audition'. What is happening seems to be anything but a 'blind audition'.
- atroyn 10y agoBut the problem here is that software engineers are not hired only for the quality of their final product - the evaluation is necessarily more complex and probably can't be done 'blind' since interpersonal interaction is so important. My point wasn't to adopt any particular procedure, rather I meant that we ought to find similar experiments. This seems to be one of them.
- hal9000xp 10y agoWell, I was hired all the time just because of my pure programming skills. That's because I have zero soft-skills :) P.S. HackerRank and Codility are doing great job to improve blind non-CV based hiring.