I’m curious if this is only a Microsoft policy. I have an opening for an applied scientist. I have a few candidates with fantastic experiences that I’d like to interview - they’re all male and either white/asian it seems. However, I am NOT allowed to begin interviewing until a female AND person of color apply for this position. This is to promote inclusivity apparently. Does your company have this requirement as well?
I’d be interested if those who vote yes can comment on where they work. I feel like Microsoft is ridiculous with this requirement as it takes weeks to have applicants sometimes.
Total BS - you can look at other occupations (such as teaching or nursing) to see where women are demographically dominant. I know people in those fields and they don’t have a requirement for a male candidate before hiring 🙄 Also Asians aren’t PoC?
Can you be more proactive about getting these people in the pipeline? Seems like you might be missing the point.
Can you explain what you mean? From my understanding, the point is to allow women/PoC to have a chance of applying for this role. However if there is no/little interest from those people to apply what should I do? Go out and find them?
Don’t you have a recruiter? That is literally part of that function’s job
Probably would work best to promote the role more. It’s just one of each… not that much.
once worked for big4, first it was visa/non visa. within that it was no two from dame school, then gender, ethnicity. this was while extending offers
This is policy started by Meta, but it has pooling recs and Meta pools crazily with location, level, and teams. Doesn't work for Microsoft with Gazillion levels and team/location specific hiring.
'I have a few candidates with fantastic experiences that I’d like to interview. ' What is your definition of fantastic experience. Some groups of people (especially those in minority) aren't very good at articulating their experiences on paper. It won't hurt you to find some from diverse background with less fancy paper to interview. Win-win for both parties. Worst case you will save up time to wait by trading time to interview candidate you weren't fully confident about.
Not sure if my company has it but I agree with the policy. In cases where you already have your candidate it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but for the majority, especially where recruiters are involved, it does. Especially for bigger companies.
My complaint is that, so far, I have some great candidates. It’s just me waiting at this point for others to apply who most likely won’t stack as well.
Lol OP send me a dm. I check one of those boxes. You can interview and then reject me