Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

Re:Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets by senordevnyc on Saturday February 15, 2020 @09:41AM (#22335551)

This is an excellent example of what I’m talking about. We tell ourselves stories about what’s going on here based on our own biases, not solely on the objective facts.

If you want diverse engineering teams but you have a serious pipeline problem where few minority and female engineers apply, what can you do? One answer is to encourage more referrals for those candidates by paying a higher referral bonus. It doesn’t seem like “blatant discrimination” to me, any more than having a recruiting fair at a historically black college would be.

Also, as a side note, what company is this? And how are bonuses 5x as high for women but also “especially” for minority women. Which is it?

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Re:Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets by dasil003 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:04AM (#22336007)

Yeah the indignation is a bit over the top. If we’re going to complain about every little imbalance in the hiring playing field we have to first acknowledge how systematically unfair it’s been to certain groups and realize that there is a huge amount of subjectivity in qualifications for all white collar or creative work.

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