If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools

Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by KGIII on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:26PM (#15544957)

I wonder if there is a competitive advantage to be had there? UMaine is a pretty good system. When I retired, I taught math at UMF for a little while, so I got to see the system from the inside.

UMF has one of the best teaching programs in the country. They even have a CS path that is judged well.

Maybe recruiting at the small State universities is a potential edge?

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by Spooky23 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:36PM (#15546139)

Please don’t. Our hiring pipeline is almost completely from these schools.

You get great talent that big tech companies won’t interview!

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by eropple on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:09PM (#15546833)

And you can underpay them, which is a nontrivial part of my concern.

No insult intended, I would rather they benefit and not you.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by Spooky23 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:01AM (#15549324)

Not really. We don’t operate in an insanely overpriced metro, so a grossly underpaid person probably takes Home more than the average tech company person out of college.

Nobody is making the big money that elite engineers make though.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by tareqak on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @08:05PM (#15546276)

Moneyball for college grads?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball

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