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Finally a real answer! by Washington Post 03/14/2017, 5:27pm PDT
and not just Mischief leaping to sexism accusations because a feminist once gave him some pussy in college


blackwater wrote:

I've been in Silicon Valley for more than a decade working at more companies than I'd like to admit. Both small and large.

"Diversity hires" are very important. Not having enough women or certain minorities can expose the company to lawsuits. So the scales are really tipped in favor of any woman or minority whose resume comes across the hiring manager's desk. It's just basic arithmetic: 95 male resumes come across your desk, and 5 female ones. But your boss says you need at least 80/20 in the group or else red flags will be raised. So what do you do? You have to lower the standards for the 5%. Make no mistake: companies like Google have quotas for the number of women and minorities in certain groups, and when bosses don't meet those quotas they are punished.

I've been on lots of interview panels. At one point I was giving 3 interviews a week. I can tell you that it's very rare for any reasonably competent women to get a no-hire. Having a background in the field or being passionate about the job are very important for most engineers, but female applicants can bypass those requirements. To give a no-hire, you would essentially need "the headshot"-- something they said that was so wrong, that it demonstrates a huge amount of ignorance-- like saying sorting a list is O(1) or something.


This is some good stuff. Some actual meaningful numbers, access to the interview and hiring process, and knowledge of terms for what it would take for women applicants not to get hired. Compare this to the reply 2 posts up that just dumps a letter grade and "WONDER WHY" to the question that men can slip past any fuckup filters.....so, why? Were they implying that the interviews for men consisted of crushing vodka red bulls over foosball games while Bang Bus videos played in the background? So it's that claim vs blackwater's detailed account claiming the opposite. Somehow I believe the latter more (WONDER WHY).
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