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If all/most employers exclude workers based on demographics, then smart employers will realize that they can find great employees in those demographics. A good
by deepnotderp 7y ago
If all/most employers exclude workers based on demographics, then smart employers will realize that they can find great employees in those demographics.
A good portion of Quant trading is based off a similar principle. If I can model priors and variance better than my competitors, I can make money.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoIt isn’t that simple. In my local talent market, big FAANGs + Microsoft-style companies have been aggressively recruiting female SWEs, creating even starker imbalances in smaller tech companies + startups. It doesn’t seem unreasonable for those companies to completely give up on finding women to hire, because that supply is limited (at least until the educational pipeline catches up). And it kind of makes sense: it will take a few more years for supply in the industry to actually increase (especially for senior talent), while companies like Google are under the spotlight now and no one really cares about that 10 developer payroll company that Google poached talent from. (Not to mention employment laws work different for companies of different sizes) To put it in trading terms, if your bigger competitors are sucking up all the supply of X, then you simply don’t worry about buying X if you can get by with Y anyways.