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No kidding huh? Who could have predicted this except for anyone who worked in tech for the past decade or two. It’s obvious women have a huge advantage.
by prestigious 5y ago
No kidding huh? Who could have predicted this except for anyone who worked in tech for the past decade or two. It’s obvious women have a huge advantage.
- aaplok 5y agoNo, it's not. Enough people hold the opposite view to at least agree that it is not obvious. It is fine to have an opinion on the matter, but it is unwise to believe that opinion to be so obvious that arguing for it is unnecessary.
- ALittleLight 5y agoArguing for it is extremely necessary, but that doesn't mean it isn't obvious. We have explicit directions to hire and promote more women and executive compensation tied to it. It would be surprising if women weren't favored in the hiring process.
- mmiliauskas 5y agoAnecdotal, but I noticed this too in my last two employments. We would give coding tests and the scoring threshold for women would be greatly reduced, because we wanted to have more women around, instead of just guys.
- busterarm 5y agoHR would push unqualified female candidates into our hiring pool bypassing our screening processes (despite the fact that we already had vetted qualified female candidates in our pool)...we're talking people three levels too junior, or in one case someone who didn't speak English at all. Then there would be some really nasty pressure from HR to hire those candidates. Then late last year our engineering leadership said that they were creating a director level position exclusively for a female person of color that would be an outside hire, which I'm pretty certain is illegal. Though they still haven't done that yet.