throwaway19342

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   by throwaway19342 8y ago

   Hi taneq, repolfx's reply is grotesquely uncharitable and I was planning to just let people judge it for themselves. To clarify this one point, though, there was a semi-technical data-cleanup department from which we routinely made cr
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   by throwaway19342 8y ago

   There are other approaches you're leaving out. For example, outreach: make sure that you have considered all candidates, make sure that you communicate to them that you truly value them. We made a couple cross-departmental promotions
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   by throwaway19342 8y ago

   No, but I think it would be odd and likely sub-optimal to have a team which was exclusively female build that product.
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   by throwaway19342 8y ago

   We hired -- and kept -- a couple of outstanding people who would probably not have worked there for long in the previous, less welcoming environment. We built bridges to other departments, providing some technical training and helping them
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   by throwaway19342 8y ago

   Indeed, one of my arguments was the same one used at Etsy: our userbase happened to be disproportionately female. To be honest, the atmosphere when I arrived was not that great -- a case could have been made that it was a hostile workplace
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   by throwaway19342 8y ago

   > Women, of course, have clearly played a major role in their own successes in the field. But that is only half the story: They were also helped by early feminist men like Daniel Lehrman. A few years ago, I started at company that had