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> But the whole point of the diversity hire isn't that you get someone who isn't white and that's it. The idea is that for every job, there are thousands of peo
by 908B64B197 6y ago
> But the whole point of the diversity hire isn't that you get someone who isn't white and that's it. The idea is that for every job, there are thousands of people who are qualified to do it, and among those, there are certainly people from all sorts of walks of life, and you'd spend earnest effort overcoming your subconscious biases by dipping your hand into the pool of equally skilled candidates, and pulling out the one that this overtly white dominated society we live in has held down since forever.
How did you find a recruiting pipeline where you can confidently say that there are thousands of equally competent potential hires in it? In Software Engineering?
I'm very curious to know where and how you source talent.
- prepend 6y agoI have interviewed hundreds and hired dozens of software developers over the years. It’s always been a challenge to find qualified candidates and I’ve never had a situation where there were 5 similarly qualified programmers, much less thousands. I think there may be some positions where there lots of people equally skilled, but not aware of any in tech. Perhaps there are thousands in the entire world, but not that apply to my positions. I think this is a good argument for trying to get more and better applications. But it confuses me to think that of the applicants I get, I can assume many are equally skilled.