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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by mcguire on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:22PM (#15013049)
Note: The percentage of women in computing is roughly 25%. I don't know how she got the 90% and 98% numbers.
Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by icc97 on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:57PM (#15013784)
It's in the text next to the 90%

> But I was working with a candidate pool composed of 90% men. Try software engineers with experience in sensors, wireless and hardware stacks before angrily correcting my stats there.

Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by unityByFreedom on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:25PM (#15014834)
If men changed jobs more often than women [1], or sent more applications to other companies (as a means of getting a raise at their current company), could that anecdotally make it seem like the ratio is more skewed than it really is?

I mean, if men are more often "candidates" for moving between jobs, then it would, right?

If that were true, then an employer wanting a more loyal or longer term employee might seek out more women.

[1] I have no evidence for any of this.

Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by jdbernard on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:56PM (#15013362)
My understanding was that was what she was seeing in the candidate pools for jobs when she was a hiring manager, not the overall percentage of women in computing.
Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by stevenwoo on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:00PM (#15014474)
My personal anecdote filtering candidates for three years in the 1990's for a video game studio was 100's of male candidates submitted their resume for programming positions versus three females at that stage. We interviewed two of the women (the third took a job in another industry before we had the chance to interview her) and made offers to the other two of them.