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It is deeply annoying to me how many people position diversifying a team as rocket science, and not just hard work that they don't want to bother doing.Permalink On twitter.com
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IMO any engineering hiring process that results in <20% women* is fundamentally broken. Measuring women hires is a metric, but should not be the goal. My policy: measure women, because you can. Everything you do, do for all under-indexed folks (and ideally everyone).On twitter.com
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Anyway that any hiring process with poor outcomes (lack of diversity can be a sign of broader problems) is fixable with some time and attention. Some advice: - Start by measuring everything & figure out where your dropoff is. - Build your pipeline. - Have empathy for candidates.Permalink On twitter.com
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I will write a longer blog post about this at some point, but I have run this process repeatedly and iterated on it. Now on round #4. 100% it is possible, if you're willing to do the work consistently and over a long period.Permalink On twitter.com