Diversity and Inclusion in Plaid Engineering
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Diversity and Inclusion in Plaid Engineering
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#2Talked to plaid, went through two long phone interviews before they told me they expected a take home project in addition to another phone screen and an in-person.
So sure, diversity as long as you’ve got a spare day or three to jump through their hoops. Doubt I’d see any parents or people over 30 in their diverse pool of people willing to work for free.
Edit: if this is your process please notify candidates at the outset.
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#3"self-reported statistics from our last quarterly engineering survey."
If you allow your employees to self report their gender, then why don't all the 'men' just identify as a woman.
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#4Talked to plaid, went through two long phone interviews before they told me they expected a take home project in addition to another phone screen and an in-person. So sure, diversity as long as you’ve got a spare day or three to jump through their hoops. Doubt I’d see any parents or people over 30 in their diverse pool of people willing to work for free. Edit: if this is your process please notify candidates at the o…
Did you complete the take home assignment?
Sounds like you just want them to hire a diverse candidate without making sure they are actually qualified for the job.
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#5Talked to plaid, went through two long phone interviews before they told me they expected a take home project in addition to another phone screen and an in-person. So sure, diversity as long as you’ve got a spare day or three to jump through their hoops. Doubt I’d see any parents or people over 30 in their diverse pool of people willing to work for free. Edit: if this is your process please notify candidates at the o…
Did you complete the take home assignment? Sounds like you just want them to hire a diverse candidate without making sure they are actually qualified for the job.
why would they work for free?
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#6Why was my comment flagged. It is a real question. If anyone can identify as a gender then keeping stats on male/female doesn't matter. Also you should start a category for those that don't identify as a gender if you want to go that route. Also you should report how many transgender people you have.
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#7Talked to plaid, went through two long phone interviews before they told me they expected a take home project in addition to another phone screen and an in-person. So sure, diversity as long as you’ve got a spare day or three to jump through their hoops. Doubt I’d see any parents or people over 30 in their diverse pool of people willing to work for free. Edit: if this is your process please notify candidates at the o…
Did you complete the take home assignment? Sounds like you just want them to hire a diverse candidate without making sure they are actually qualified for the job.
The parent post presented an arguable opinion, i.e. the process is unreasonably arduous, which is potentially at odds with their stated values, and, perhaps more importantly, the process was not communicated well. Your reply was to insult them.
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#8Talked to plaid, went through two long phone interviews before they told me they expected a take home project in addition to another phone screen and an in-person. So sure, diversity as long as you’ve got a spare day or three to jump through their hoops. Doubt I’d see any parents or people over 30 in their diverse pool of people willing to work for free. Edit: if this is your process please notify candidates at the o…
Calling this "work for free" seems a bit misleading. It's not like the take home assignment is helping the employer build something.
I don't see it as unpaid labor anymore than I would see the interview process itself as unpaid labor.
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#9Talked to plaid, went through two long phone interviews before they told me they expected a take home project in addition to another phone screen and an in-person. So sure, diversity as long as you’ve got a spare day or three to jump through their hoops. Doubt I’d see any parents or people over 30 in their diverse pool of people willing to work for free. Edit: if this is your process please notify candidates at the o…
Calling this "work for free" seems a bit misleading. It's not like the take home assignment is helping the employer build something. I don't see it as unpaid labor anymore than I would see the interview process itself as unpaid labor.
The line is indeed blurry, but if it were to be drawn somewhere, I don't think it's unreasonable to draw it at being asked to create a small but complete instance of the work you are being hired for that may take anywhere from hours to days, as opposed to being asked to see existing examples.
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#10I look forward to the day when people are judged for who they are, not for what they do to someone's arbitrary spreadsheet designed to make the numbers give them a warm and fuzzy feeling.