Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”

Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:42PM (#22394968)

Just to be clear, this is why I suggested normal companies not trying to reform society should base their quota on what they "believe represents the potential population of good hires", possibly based for example on their applicant pool. If only 10% of all engineers are women as of 2020, you need not mandate they they comprise at least 40% of your engineering team.

(While there's a separate discussion to be had about why so few women choose to be engineers, that's not the company's problem to solve.)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by perl4ever on Sunday February 23, 2020 @09:40AM (#22397007)

"If only 10% of all engineers are women as of 2020, you need not mandate they they comprise at least 40% of your engineering team"

There's no logical reason why "10% of engineers are women" implies "10% of every engineering team should be women" instead of, for example, "10% of engineering teams should be all women".

A number of teams could be 40% women even if the average were 10%, and there's also no reason why excess men have to be engineers just because they were educated as such. That's a thing that happens anyway, just like people without CS degrees go into programming.

[ Parent | on HN ]