Easier for women to get a job in tech?
is it really easier for women to get a job in tech as compared to men? I was talking to a friend recently and he was convinced that women have it easy at tech jobs at FAANG and non, just cause they are women. another amazon friend told me they have a rule that atleast one female interviewer should be included in the interview process for female candidates for whatever reason but there is no bias as such. Genuine question: for people who conduct interviews do you favor women in general? please sound off below with reasons. thanks for your time.
In some companies, coworkers will proudly say how they rated females higher just because they were female.
The women who make it in tech tend to be strong survivors, so proportionally to their small population more of them do well. But itâs not easier, itâs survivor bias.
this!!!
Some companies clearly prioritize hiring women for the sake of diversity numbers. So yes in those cases.
It is very subjective. Some teams may show bias and some wonât. It is all based on different factors, hiring managers and their diversity til then. You also see teams in certain orgs and companies consisting of only men. It is very subjective of teams and not companies. I do not think there is a bias if it isnât team based but positions like new grad positions. It is my personal opinion which means nothing. But it totally depends on what a team is looking for. So far in my experience Iâve seen teams hiring genuine talent irrespective of gender at Oracle (my team, again varies for other teams), Amazon, Google. Iâve seen women getting preference at companies like Deloitte. Iâve seen Cisco showing partial bias for women in new grad roles while at school. In the end, it all comes down to the interviewers and not companies. But many companies do not care about gender in tech industry. I canât speak for finance and other industries.
+1 for cisco hiring a lot of new grad girls
No. I write down what I asked and what the candidate answered. Then we debrief and discuss the results. Your friend might just be an idiot.
The HR often pushes more female resumes up the stack that wouldâve been rejected if it was a male candidate; also the HR often schedules additional interviews for female candidates in case the interview feedback is mixed; something that all male candidates donât get. So, no, you might be the idiot.
Mmyea except it doesnt happen. If a female candidate gets mixed feedback and there is a male candidate with all good feedback, âThe HRâ has no power to schedule more rounds. Wtf are you talking about?
At my last company, the success rate from interview to offer is pretty equal with the men and women that we interview. We just had way fewer women that we interviewed because the number of female applicants was really low. We would try to have a woman on the interview panel for a female candidate, because we had women reject offers and say that they felt like they didn't see any successful women on the team, so they'd be set up to fail. So by making sure to have one of our badass women interview a female candidate, the candidate could see themselves more on our team. Can't speak for what it's like at Google, as external hiring here is way more decentralized and run by HR.
There was a period at Spotify when a company made its top priority to have 50/50 at any cost. I have been interviewing engineers for years and the amount of bias I saw is staggering. âMaybe we should give her a chanceâ? âShe will grow, thatâs the most importantâ. Never saw anyone so keen when reviewing male candidates. I am all for equal opportunity, but that wasnât.
Yeah, equal opportunity it is not. And that is fine. We need to tilt the scale a bit to break the imbalance. In time, when the number of women/diverse candidates applying for a tech job goes up, we'll take away that advantage.
I call that double standards.
Of course. Let's not mention how diversity hiring is the hot thing now. But I think most are motivated naturally to have a team mix. I don't want to be with a bunch of crusty guys all day long
There is more top of funnel attention for under represented candidates, but the hiring standard is the same. Do they have it easier once in the job, Iâd say no. There is still a lot of sexism in the industry.
No.