Re:Facebook's female engineers claim gender bias
by npelly on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:02AM
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It's not that hard.
Hiring managers / hiring committees for technical positions at the big-5 are made up of peer engineers and managers (not recruiters or executives). So they hire the best person for the job because they're likely to be working alongside.
I haven't come across situations where there are direct diversity incentives at the point where the hiring decision is made. Sure, there's probably indirect incentives, but I don't think they're as strong as your suggesting.
Re:Facebook's female engineers claim gender bias
by ng12 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:40AM
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And engineers are free of bias? You know the candidate is a desirable hire and will receive competing offers because of their gender (rightly or wrongly).
Hiring managers / hiring committees for technical positions at the big-5 are made up of peer engineers and managers (not recruiters or executives). So they hire the best person for the job because they're likely to be working alongside.
I haven't come across situations where there are direct diversity incentives at the point where the hiring decision is made. Sure, there's probably indirect incentives, but I don't think they're as strong as your suggesting.