Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?
by JohnFen on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:42PM
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> The problem to me is that the applicant pool doesn't always represent the best
True, which is why I made the statement narrow -- we hire the best applicants. I make no claim that the applicants are the best devs available in the industry overall. "Best", after all, is context-dependent. A top notch engineer may not be the best for a given position due to other factors.
The point I was trying to make is that we hire based on ability, not based on unrelated factors such as trying to hit arbitrary diversity goals. For these companies, the diversity comes naturally as a result of not caring what the race/gender/age of the applicant is. I have no idea, and make no claim about, whether or not the experience at these companies is an exception or a norm. It's just what I've personally seen.
True, which is why I made the statement narrow -- we hire the best applicants. I make no claim that the applicants are the best devs available in the industry overall. "Best", after all, is context-dependent. A top notch engineer may not be the best for a given position due to other factors.
The point I was trying to make is that we hire based on ability, not based on unrelated factors such as trying to hit arbitrary diversity goals. For these companies, the diversity comes naturally as a result of not caring what the race/gender/age of the applicant is. I have no idea, and make no claim about, whether or not the experience at these companies is an exception or a norm. It's just what I've personally seen.