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> Due to the current economic situation we don't have new headcount for our org however feel free to reach out if you have a diverse candidate that would be int

> Due to the current economic situation we don't have new headcount for our org however feel free to reach out if you have a diverse candidate that would be interested in joining" This is largely analogous to the "Opportunistic Hiring" policies Dropbox introduced in April 2019. We set aside reserved headcount for "diverse" candidates (ostensibly this includes women of any race, and URM men. In practice, almost entirely non-URM women). When a team hired a "diverse" candidate, the headcount was drawn from the reserved pool not the team's normal headcount allocation. In practice, this meant that women were often hired into roles without much work to do. By far the most common complaints I've heard from women in tech is that the company doesn't have enough work for them and they aren't being given projects. Makes me wonder how many companies are engaging in similar behavior.

OkayPhysicist 3y ago
To be fair, I've got plenty of white (or white passing) male friends who also ended up in roles with a shortage of work to do. There's this awkward period between someone being hired, and them being familiar enough with the workplace to actively seek out stuff that needs to be done that leaves a lot of people with very little to do.
- Manuel_D 3y ago
  My sister, though, had been in her role for 2+ years but still only had work to keep her busy maybe 30% of the time. Similar situation with one of my past girlfriends. These were both Product Managers - I think it's less of an issue for software developers, since there's always a backlog to hack away at.
  - OkayPhysicist 3y ago
    Shit, I was talking about software developers. I've never known a busy manager. Not a gendered thing at all, it's just a bloated class of employee.
    - Manuel_D 3y ago
      Not managers, product managers. They didn't have any reports, they were still ICs.
  - aydyn 3y ago
    Of course, because project management isn’t a real job, and it’s almost exclusively staffed by white women. Coincidentally.
    - adrianN 3y ago
      I worked with maybe half a dozen product managers and none of them were women.

OkayPhysicist 3y ago

To be fair, I've got plenty of white (or white passing) male friends who also ended up in roles with a shortage of work to do. There's this awkward period between someone being hired, and them being familiar enough with the workplace to actively seek out stuff that needs to be done that leaves a lot of people with very little to do.

Manuel_D 3y ago
My sister, though, had been in her role for 2+ years but still only had work to keep her busy maybe 30% of the time. Similar situation with one of my past girlfriends. These were both Product Managers - I think it's less of an issue for software developers, since there's always a backlog to hack away at.
- OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  Shit, I was talking about software developers. I've never known a busy manager. Not a gendered thing at all, it's just a bloated class of employee.
  - Manuel_D 3y ago
    Not managers, product managers. They didn't have any reports, they were still ICs.
- aydyn 3y ago
  Of course, because project management isn’t a real job, and it’s almost exclusively staffed by white women. Coincidentally.
  - adrianN 3y ago
    I worked with maybe half a dozen product managers and none of them were women.