> If the percentage of female computer science graduates [is] a strong proxy for the available candidate population I doubt it is. You’re writing off all the s

> If the percentage of female computer science graduates [is] a strong proxy for the available candidate population I doubt it is. You’re writing off all the self-taught coders. You’re also writing off all the non-coders. Most companies seem to think they want a 10:1:1 ratio of engineers:designers:product managers, etc. I think 3:3:3 would be better, and makes your issue go away. But we have this worship of “engineering” as some sort of magical thing that happens in a vacuum and requires no cross-discipline input. Meanwhile every tech company I’ve ever worked for is pathologically rewriting the same code over and over, bashing their heads against the same tech debt over and over, and regularly wasting millions of dollars Building The Wrong Thing. Heck we should probably have 10:1 masseuses and 10:1 psychotherapists on staff. Productivity would strictly increase.