Comment by vladgur
2 months ago
DO you have examples of companies whose funnels were not open to "wider audience" prior to DEI? Lets say this century.
Tech has been meritocratic for decades with few exceptions.
2 months ago
DO you have examples of companies whose funnels were not open to "wider audience" prior to DEI? Lets say this century.
Tech has been meritocratic for decades with few exceptions.
Examples are going to be hard to come by. No company is going to publicly admit that they used to be limiting their hiring pipeline in such a way. Admittedly, this also means that I'm speculating that the number of companies are "vast". Surely many have quietly made the change.
Sample size of one, I worked in the past for a company whose entire staff was white men, 100%. Except for a single role: the receptionist at the front desk. There is no reasonable biological explanation for this extreme distribution.
There are tons of studies that have shown that if your name is sounding like you're from a minority your chances of being invited for an interview are significantly lower. Similar if you include photos.
As a side note, it's quite ironic that engineers often tend to complain about performance metrics and that they are being gamed, not really a good measure of merit..., but the same people turn around and argue that the everything should be a meriocracy.