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You can still lower the bar below "hiring straight out of college in droves". Hiring more self taught and bootcamp people is often advocated as a way to increa
by shados 10y ago
You can still lower the bar below "hiring straight out of college in droves".
Hiring more self taught and bootcamp people is often advocated as a way to increase diversity, and a lot of roles don't require a college degree (plus a lot of self taught and bootcamp folks are very good). However, on a large enough dataset, they will be weaker candidates. So if you use those sources to improve diversity, you'll end up with a correlation between diverse hires and more junior devs. Which screws up with every other metrics you'll look at.
- douche 10y agoI'm not sure you're going to correct the perceived gender/racial/whatever imbalances if you start hiring self-taught programmers and bootcamp grads in droves, just looking at the typical demographics of the people that self-select into those cohorts.
- shados 10y agothere's actually quite a few bootcamps and social programs to help minorities break into the field, actually.