Recruiting for Diversity in Tech
summary
Argues that diversity measurably improves outcomes: 75% of companies with two-dimensional diversity more likely to implement marketable ideas, 70% more likely to capture new markets, and calls out Apache projects with single-digit women committers (Hadoop 6/105, Cassandra 4%, Subversion 1%). Recommends concrete fixes: outbound recruiting and quotas (Y Combinator historically ~4% women; ~30% of CS degrees go to women), mentorship and internships, blind auditions (orchestra screens), balanced interview teams, and a strict code of conduct.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:02The Diversity Gap
- 3:20Working Rules
- 4:56TwoDimensional Diversity
- 6:21Starting Salary
- 6:42meritocracy is broken
- 9:00statistics
- 9:43recruiting
- 10:04the gap
- 10:53the long game
- 11:50outbound recruiting
- 12:53build your own
- 13:31code of conduct
- 14:01acceptable
- 14:44balanced
