Hiring bar
Honest question - in your company, do you think the hiring bar is any different for minority/diversity background folks?
In general - not about Google. Even if the hiring bar is officially the same, what happens is that when you are required to hire a diversity and keep looking and interviewing for a very long time then the human nature will just lower the standards to get the job done and move on. Having said that, yes, the bar at some companies is known to be different for diversity.
Resumes are overwhelming screened by HRs for these parameters. So the funnel itself is filled with these resumes. And then we hire one of them, even if not completely convinced, so that the requisition is not closed end of quarter.
Yes. Female included as minority/diversity.
Hiring bar is not lower. I’m sure there will be always those managers that hire certain people for the wrong incentives. But not hiring bar is same. Sourcing is another story, I’m sure priority is placed at top of funnel to reach out to more diversity candidates. This is not lowering the hiring bar, it’s similar to when targets need to diversify their experience levels e.g. freeze on L4 hiring and only hire college and L5+
there are white dudes with no CS background scoring SDE jobs because they go to pub crawls with our director but yes, mexicans and women are the problem
Yes. At a previous organization I saw that the bar is much lower for male candidates trying to get into female dominated marketing positions. Sad, really. I wish men could get in on their own merits. There just aren't enough well qualified candidates.
It is low for everyone 😂