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 It was clear there was not a single woman on the team because, in my opinion, that's the first thing she would've designed

Wonderful example. Yes that's the reason I would like to have women as a designer, product manager, BA, leadership, etc.   
    
  However, my question is for a software development role who codes these decisions

Software Engineer

We need women or diverse designers, managers, etc but not coders is like saying we need intelligent politicians but not bureaucrates or policy drafters

Lawyer

Would you like to see more women in coding? Or not?

Product Owner

This a genuine question and I'm honestly curious and don't know whom to ask this. I'm here to get educated on this topic pls don't get me wrong

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Why is diversity needed in software development role?

Why is diversity needed in software development role?- Grapevine

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The budgets have been cut for diversity hiring. This is also in response to a lawsuit from conservative groups. Is it happening in IDCs too?
Link to NY Post Article: https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/tech/google-meta-other-tech-giants-slash-dei-related-jobs-resource-groups-in-2023-report/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

Big tech have started slashing diversity related jobs in USA

Hi reddit community I have something to ask. During time of placement lot of companies preferred girls and some only came for girls. The reason hr gave was to maintain a healthy ration in company and its easier to do it at entry level . 

Now, as people gain experience things such as college tag cgpa and other thing do not value while switching . Your algorithmic skills and developmental skills matters. 

For experienced people also does diversity hiring happen as it is the case for freshers. Do company prefer girls? If possible can someone share their experience? 

While talking to one of the senior didi she told that diversity hiring and all these things happen at entry level only, there are many programs that only recruit girls for entry level but for experienced people only skills matters

Does diversity hiring even happens at experienced level

My company is only hiring females for most of the positions. Now I dont really care about the gender/race/religion of the people getting hired but they must have right skillset and attitude.

But most of the candidates who have been hired have none of these two. My team has almost 50 percent female candidates but they have been into the team for almost 6 months but still don't perform upto the mark. In some cases, college freshers are able to get the job done faster than these folks. Availability is also a big challenge and it's difficult to approach them to work beyond working hours even for small things that would take 30 mins or 1 hour. They just reply by saying I have logged ofr for the day. And manager would ask a guy to do the job. And let me confirm that the management expect us to be available 24/7 as its a business and operationally driven company.  The manager dont ask females to work after working hours in most of the cases. They only work after working when the entire team is working. If its the individual owner who has to act, tgen it surely goes to any male guy. and everyone is super pissed of because despite working and giving more than 100 percent, the teams productivity doesn't justify the head counts. 

In my experience, diversity hiring should be done with caution. Candidates hired should have almost same level of knowledge and skillset as of the team and they should be told about the work culture, expectations at the time of hiring. Also people who don't need a job should avoid joining such culture as they aren't not sincere about their job and will be hated by everyone in the team due to these differences.

Recently When I raised this concern to my manager, he said that I should avoid saying all this as it or else if this goes to HR, cases of posh may be slaaped onto me. I am really pissed off, planning to change the job asap. Not sure what kind of work culture have we created....

Diversity Hiring

Hi community,
Wanted to know why MNCs give priority to hire girls over deserving folks?
Got multiple calls and messages from juniors both from college and others that companies are hiring in the ratio of 8 girls to 1 boy. 

Is there any specific thing that the companies gain by this? 

Really saddened by this current scenario, first this reservation scenario, and now this diversity shit.

Seems like it is a curse to be born as a General Male in this country.

Why does this diversity thing exist?

Title. I want to know the opinions of both men and women regarding this of why they are for or against diversity hiring.

Is diversity hiring in tech a good thing?

Pt1.
I have seen folks, getting multiple offers , like for sde-1/sde-2 position , since I am also targeting the same , so how do folks are able to grab multiple offers ?

I dont see HR reaching out enough to me , and most of the applications I apply to have we found better candidate at this pt.


Pt2.
I personally have seen very few womens being good at dsa , but at Linkedin I see even women's grabbing multiple offer, so for experienced women is the interview rounds as difficult or at same level as that of men for sde roles ? 

Or there is some diversity happening there as well?

how to get mutiple offers ?

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All the PMs I see have an MBA or are past engineers. I'm from an arts and design background, Tier 1 institute. Worked in tech for 5+years and learned how to build products. Based on feedback so far, I'm doing fine. 

But I worry about progressing in my product career without those external signals. Product feels like a boys club full of people from the same universities and backgrounds, with the same extreme quant-driven approach.

Is there room for diverse educational backgrounds in product management, realistically? Which companies have you see hiring these types of PMs?
Would love to hear from others in the same boat.

Imposter syndrome as a PM with non traditional background

Product Manager

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After this all college guy diversity hiring e-lafda. I got the importance of pseudonymous platforms like Grapevine where we can rant out our opinions without getting canceled. By the way what do you think on this diversity hiring thing it was pretty same as ranting about reservations which mostly people do.

Diversity hiring e lafda

Software Developer

So, recently there is a surge of peeps from igdtuw posting about their placement and internship in LinkedIn Twitter(congratulations). And there are a lot of arguments and confrontations going on about diversity hiring, recession proof college, etc.
But what bothers me are people that are frustrated (even tough I understand the frustration) and tweeting shit like girls are getting opportunity only because of diversity hiring and all, bro are you dumb or what, no company would hire a liability, they might hire intern randomly but it's close to impossible to convert it in full time ( if you got no skills or required skills).

Now there are some peeps from igdtuw confronting in a very rude and dumb way of showing how low the bar was for their qualification and test.
One user tweeted something like "some boys crying about diversity hiring but are busy writing just Hello world" like behen at least write busy in reversing linkedlist. 

There is a girl (unnati) working at Zomato, she is giving gyan about how hard it was for her and how hard she worked for it, her GitHub is dry lake and the 1 year she was very active on GitHub( all of them were DSA question solved) that's it, she participated in a hackathon and got podium finish (i think), the only reason she was in the hackathon group was because there is a mandatory rule for one female member. all this is fine as life is unfair but the best you can do is not preach toxic positivity "ki karte karo ho jaayega" behen tu kab Kiya ye to bata?

And some girls are feeling guilty of their privilege, so the best way to not feel guilt of your privilege is to enjoy your privilege to your max potential. without showing your arrogance maybe.

All these shit are even tolerable because everyone is unique with different minds, different opinions, but those positivity ke dalal are the worst who are still saying karte raho ho jaayega and all.Peeps like unnati

I am practicing to become more articulate, so feedbacks are welcome.

IGDTUW peeps, just enjoy your privilege and stop confronting frustrated peeps

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I am 2023 grad. I have joined a product based company. Next year, I want to join a good company like Rubrik, Uber, DE Shaw, Bloomberg etc. 

What should I learn? How to utilise this year to switch to a good company?

PS: For me, a good company means high salary and challenging work environment. I don't care about work life balance.

How to switch to a good company in 1 year

Is it compulsory for companies to do diversity hiring? Does it apply to private companies? What categories fall under diversity hiring, and how do you know if you are eligible for diversity hire?

Diversity hire

First of all, I don't support diversity recruiting. I think there are plenty of things that are completely unfair about it. I am GEM myself. I think there are some forms of diversity recruiting initiatives out there that shouldn't exist.

But god damn, every other post I see is someone whining about diversity. And even on posts that are not about diversity, someone finds a way to bring diversity up and blame it for all their problems in a tangentially related manner. 

It wasn't like this 5 years ago. It really wasn't. So what changed?

Some of the posts are just hilariously bad. A kid talking about how a recruiter told him not to apply because they're only taking diverse candidates? Many of you want to become Software Engineers or PMs. Diversity recruiting sucks, but it isn't the cause of all your problems. If you're too blind to see that, you honestly don't have the judgement you need to work in Tech.

People who are anti-diversity hiring need to go to a doctor.

For me it is that sometimes I quote 2x the time it will take for me to code something because I want to test it better and ensure that I don't push code with bugs that affects prod deployment with downtime or unintended behaviour. I can do it faster but I know that PMs don't respect developer time and will ask me to build stuff because they want to get promoted for real.

What is the darkest truth that most engineers don't talk about?

Seeing a lot of tweets in twitter where influencers are fighting over Diversity hiring. Your views?

Views on Diversity hiring

Data engineer

I'll go first,

1. Paying fair wages
2. Ensuring work life balance + providing support 
3. Diversifying hiring from various backgrounds
4. Investing in learning and development

What other things do you think can be done?

Since there is so much talk about Indian companies, innovation and it's lack thereof, what do you think workplaces can do to make them more conducive to bringing in more innovation?

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This is something I've started to notice a lot now that whenever I go to a company's LinkedIn page, most of the recent hires have been a woman. I'm only talking about tech companies and MNCs and gender based hiring.

I've been on hiring panels before and we were asked to give preference to female candidates even if they underperformed because the team wasn't diverse enough. The same has been confirmed by my other friends who are in HR and TA. Not all companies do this but all the major companies definitely do from my experience.

Again, this post is not to hate on women by any means but sometimes I wonder why is this even the case currently? Why can't we simply hire based on performance and experience rather than gender?

I had to reject so many good candidates because their only mistake was that they were born as a male.

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