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> Even if Google were perfectly fair internally, women coming in from academia are likely to have faced gender bias [1], meaning less impressive resumes and the

• wpietri 9y ago
  I doubt it. I once had an employee who had accepted an entry-level engineering position when they really were qualified for two levels above that. I was explicitly told they couldn't skip levels, and that I could only put them up for promotion so often. But even at a place that didn't have slow-down-there bias built in to the promotion process, the way you prove you're qualified for the next level is by doing work that's above your current level. Nobody will give staff engineer work to somebody in an entry level position; there's too much jockeying for that work by people one level down. So there's a practical limit to the rate at which somebody can advance even with no bias.