> There's a document at Twitter that lists the schools that Twitter wants to recruit from. This document was penned by Alex Roetter, the Senior VP of engineering. He had his other directors contribute to it, modify it and refine it. It listed Cal, Stanford, CMU, Waterloo, MIT, typical schools like that. Never listed any state schools. Never listed any HBCUs. It listed certain companies and excluded certain companies.…
I disagree. All companies have only a finite amount of time/money to spend on hiring, so they're often forced to use crude heuristics to filter out resumes, especially in companies that get a huge number of applicants every year, like Twitter. Maybe it's just me, but based on my experience, filtering candidates (as a first pass) based on school or previous role does yield many false positives and negatives, but it st…
Re: Q&A with the Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversity Problems
#81Not true. Google probably receives far more applications every year and still takes the time to screen every single resume and give them a shot. I graduated from a relatively unknown university in a relatively unknown part of the world, but they looked at what I did and not what stamp I had.