Have any managers been politely or gently told that you should hire a woman on your team? I just hired a very qualified female but do not want her treated like an affirmative action hire.
Microsoft has this new forced diversity metric where interviewers and Hiring Managers are told verbally that that mandatorily need to meet a diversity ‘scorecard’
I was told by my boss only to look at women’s resumes and discard the men’s
Is that for aws
How do you know someone's gender by resume? Is it name?
Yes. (Not at current company)
As long as you are not lowering the bar to hire a woman (who would cost less $$ anyways), you are improving diversity without compromising. Also there are some jobs that are dominated by women, ex. Marketing, customer support, PR, Corp comm, etc.
That’s mathematically impossible. Every hire is a sampling of some distribution. Disqualifying 80% of the candidates (lower bound of percentage of males in CS / SWE) reduces the expected likelihood of finding a match if same threshold is used. Only way to still find matches with same likelihood is to reduce threshold. Notice I’m describing it in a probabilistic context, not anecdotal / specific to a case.
True. This is a case for slightly lower threshold that can be workable as long as the company spends enough resources on training and development. Diversity is not gender diversity alone. Under represented populations are also part of diversity. The core idea being this is more representative of society in general. About women, keep this stay in mind about Stem education: The percentage of PhDs in STEM fields in the U.S. earned by women is about 42%, whereas the percentage of PhDs in all fields earned by women is about 52%.
☝️here and we did. The manager's performance is tied to diversity objectives so .... all our team hires a few years ago were women. One of them told me straight up that the interview was easy compared to other tech companies in the valley.
A quota to hire more women is sexist... Sounds like one of those incompetent top-down mandates you hear about communist states, like the Great Leap Forward.
😀 capitalism sucks less this way atleast, all the tech we’ve all been working hard to build is stupid and worthless anyway
Yep, I do agree! Just a matter of time before the pendulum swings even harder, and smacks contemporary liberals in their authoritarian @sses.
Happened to me
You mean like this? https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/insights/publications/2018/10/california-governor-signs-bill-mandating-female-board-directors/
I work for a private company based outside NA.
News from California sound like The Onion. The state is fucked beyond return.