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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by kristianc on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:34PM (#14949986)
> If companies were really, truly interested in fairness and equality, then their HR policies for hiring would say one and only one thing - that the best candidate is the one that gets the job.

It's strange though that you will find many engineers who say that HR policies for hiring do a poor job of finding the right engineers for the job (whiteboarding tests, easily gamed, "culture fit" etc), but who don't seem as eager to admit that these factors, rather than "biological differences" could be what are excluding women.

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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by lawnchair_larry on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:21PM (#14951750)
Whiteboarding tests are not HR policies anywhere. HR has next to nothing to do with who gets hired other than when they intervene. They're typically the last step of the process.
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