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

Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ... by jlebrech on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:47AM (#14256105)

as leshow deleted their comment (edit: I can see it again) i'll explain:

* facebook got criticism for not hiring enough women as coders.

* facebook hired more women (probably lots of junior coders)

* they do what junior coders do

* someone turned the code review rejections into a spreadsheet and disregarded seniority (experience mainly), and made the issue about gender.

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Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ... by smt88 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:21PM (#14257208)

What about studies of GitHub showing that pull requests are rejected more often when the contributor is known to be female?

Or, to put it another way: when contributors are anonymous and genderless, work by women is accepted at the same rate as men?

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Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ... by nathanasmith on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:01PM (#14258365)

The Github results were based on the assumed gender of submitters based on things like having female anime character avatars and "female sounding" usernames. I would posit that methodology as highly flawed.

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Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ... by jlebrech on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:40AM (#14262698)

are what is 'code', maybe they were just textual changes (eg adding a contributor covenant)

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