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Based on my own personal experience, the underrepresentation faced by women by tech isn’t necessarily all about companies not hiring women, at least when it com

Based on my own personal experience, the underrepresentation faced by women by tech isn’t necessarily all about companies not hiring women, at least when it comes to engineering — from what I’ve seen, the stream of female candidates is extremely weak (even more so for small to mid size companies), with what few that do come through not being a good match for the position. Either the majority of potential candidates aren’t applying or they just don’t exist. The only way I can see this getting corrected is for schools to start encouraging girls to get into technical subjects and provide better support for those who take interest or for companies to provide programs to educate women into technical roles (imagine a high quality code boot camp, except company run or sponsored).

nostrademons 8y ago
In my experience female engineering candidates are generally strong but not very numerous. As in, when you find one she's often as good or better than your best male candidates, but you won't find very many. This is consistent with the rest of the pipeline being a high-pass filter: you have to be good to put up with the bullshit female engineers get in school and junior jobs, and so everyone that's not washes out of tech by mid- to senior-levels. Also, if you do find a good female candidate, she's probably going to get hired by Google or Facebook and accept their offer instead. They offer less risk for more pay and less attitude, which is an attractive bargain to many people.