Re:Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering
by disgruntledphd2 on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:05AM
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Well you don't actually know that, because you don't know what the top of the funnel looks like.
Consider a world where every L6+ manager candidate has a family and kids. However, only 5% of these can make time to do the LC stuff (revising most likely if they've been managing for a while).
So your company will end up filtering out 95% of candidates immediately, but people in the company will say that there's no problem as all of the successful candidates have a family and kids, so it can't be biased.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of technical screening for managers, but I'm making the point that you can't look at the output of a funnel and conclude that everything's fine, you need to look at the complete funnel to understand this.
Consider a world where every L6+ manager candidate has a family and kids. However, only 5% of these can make time to do the LC stuff (revising most likely if they've been managing for a while).
So your company will end up filtering out 95% of candidates immediately, but people in the company will say that there's no problem as all of the successful candidates have a family and kids, so it can't be biased.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of technical screening for managers, but I'm making the point that you can't look at the output of a funnel and conclude that everything's fine, you need to look at the complete funnel to understand this.