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But you're seeing the outcome of a selection process. You might feel differently if you saw the top of the funnel.
by disgruntledphd2 5y ago
But you're seeing the outcome of a selection process. You might feel differently if you saw the top of the funnel.
- joshuamorton 5y agoIn what way? If you mean that there might be management wizards who are just fantastic but we skip, perhaps. But that isn't the point I was making, just that despite what people think, these interviews don't actually filter out experienced people with families and kids. Those kinds of people get hired regularly.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoWell you don't actually know that, because you don't know what the top of the funnel looks like. Consider a world where every L6+ manager candidate has a family and kids. However, only 5% of these can make time to do the LC stuff (revising most likely if they've been managing for a while). So your company will end up filtering out 95% of candidates immediately, but people in the company will say that there's no problem as all of the successful candidates have a family and kids, so it can't be biased. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of technical screening for managers, but I'm making the point that you can't look at the output of a funnel and conclude that everything's fine, you need to look at the complete funnel to understand this.