Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, former employee claims

Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ... by shados on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:45AM (#14256078)

You can still lower the bar below "hiring straight out of college in droves".

Hiring more self taught and bootcamp people is often advocated as a way to increase diversity, and a lot of roles don't require a college degree (plus a lot of self taught and bootcamp folks are very good). However, on a large enough dataset, they will be weaker candidates. So if you use those sources to improve diversity, you'll end up with a correlation between diverse hires and more junior devs. Which screws up with every other metrics you'll look at.

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Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ... by douche on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:51AM (#14256150)

I'm not sure you're going to correct the perceived gender/racial/whatever imbalances if you start hiring self-taught programmers and bootcamp grads in droves, just looking at the typical demographics of the people that self-select into those cohorts.

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Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ... by shados on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:03PM (#14270035)

there's actually quite a few bootcamps and social programs to help minorities break into the field, actually.

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