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Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female
- smt88 9y agoI 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?
- mattbillenstein 9y agoHow did you accomplish this? Aggressive screening by gender at each phase of the hiring pipeline or just at the resume phase?
- angersock 9y ago> Aggressive screening by gender That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.
- mattbillenstein 9y agoAssuming the pool is 80-90% male to start, to get to 50% I think one would have to be "aggressive" -- don't you?
- smt88 9y agoI 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.