Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
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Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
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Re: Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
#2I was disappointed by the lack of substance here. It's just a PR puff piece.
I'd be much more interested in learning what Gusto changed (if anything) and how it changed their applicant pool.
Were 50% of the applicants female? Was there a significant quality difference between genders or across time?
Re: Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
#3How did you accomplish this? Aggressive screening by gender at each phase of the hiring pipeline or just at the resume phase?
Re: Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
#4How did you accomplish this? Aggressive screening by gender at each phase of the hiring pipeline or just at the resume phase?
> Aggressive screening by gender
That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.
Re: Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
#5How did you accomplish this? Aggressive screening by gender at each phase of the hiring pipeline or just at the resume phase?
> Aggressive screening by gender That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.
Assuming the pool is 80-90% male to start, to get to 50% I think one would have to be "aggressive" -- don't you?
Re: Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Aggressive screening by gender That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.
Assuming the pool is 80-90% male to start, to get to 50% I think one would have to be "aggressive" -- don't you?
I think GP meant that "aggressive screening by gender" is another way of saying "discrimination". In the US, I think that's technically true -- you can end up with a very different pool of hires than applicants, but you're vulnerable to lawsuits forcing you to defend the merit of the ones who were hired.