Hey Charlotte. I saw your comment 'I cannot believe that with that many resumes, not one woman would be a fit for the job.' I have an story about that.
I was working for a company with a team of software developers all of them men. The CEO was worry about that situation in an all-hands with all the company (300~ employees). He said that we were looking actively to integrate women to the engineering department. He invited all the assistants to share our job ads for devs with any women who could be interested. Besides that we found some interesting facts 75% of the women applicants receive the online technical test and they don't even tried to do it. The test was 10 exercises about algorithms and programming stuff the platform we use suggested to complete the test in 2 hours. However we give them 2 days (for men/women equally). From the other 25% who presented the online test. Only 10% passed the test and the majority of them for some reason dropped the process. After a couple of months and 2 call interviews for each candidate. We only had 2 women visiting our office. We realized one of them was lying about their experience and the other one was not as good as other applicants(men). BTW we were looking for real senior developers, no mid senior, no juniors.
I do not know what is wrong with the industry I wish it could change soon. I truly believe that we tried.
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Hi! I think that this is really interesting because you'd get some people who'd look at this and take it as proof that women aren't as skilled when the reality is that the technical test was obviously putting of the applicants. As this was for a senior developer role, I would bet that many of them were annoyed by the fact that they're being made to do a test before anything else, basically having all of their prior experience dismissed. Another point is that was the technical test relevant? I've found that often those online technical tests are just annoying and a waste of everyone's time, that's probably why quite a few tried it and then gave up too!
We also have to be really careful with interviews too because people naturally judge the competence on others based on their own skills. So saying the woman was not as good as the other applicants who were men is not necessarily true. They may not have been as good fit for the role for sure but also there may have been biases there.
I hope that it changes too. I can't think of any other industry that has this sort of process!
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Hey Charlotte. I saw your comment 'I cannot believe that with that many resumes, not one woman would be a fit for the job.' I have an story about that.
I was working for a company with a team of software developers all of them men. The CEO was worry about that situation in an all-hands with all the company (300~ employees). He said that we were looking actively to integrate women to the engineering department. He invited all the assistants to share our job ads for devs with any women who could be interested. Besides that we found some interesting facts 75% of the women applicants receive the online technical test and they don't even tried to do it. The test was 10 exercises about algorithms and programming stuff the platform we use suggested to complete the test in 2 hours. However we give them 2 days (for men/women equally). From the other 25% who presented the online test. Only 10% passed the test and the majority of them for some reason dropped the process. After a couple of months and 2 call interviews for each candidate. We only had 2 women visiting our office. We realized one of them was lying about their experience and the other one was not as good as other applicants(men). BTW we were looking for real senior developers, no mid senior, no juniors.
I do not know what is wrong with the industry I wish it could change soon. I truly believe that we tried.
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Hi! I think that this is really interesting because you'd get some people who'd look at this and take it as proof that women aren't as skilled when the reality is that the technical test was obviously putting of the applicants. As this was for a senior developer role, I would bet that many of them were annoyed by the fact that they're being made to do a test before anything else, basically having all of their prior experience dismissed. Another point is that was the technical test relevant? I've found that often those online technical tests are just annoying and a waste of everyone's time, that's probably why quite a few tried it and then gave up too!
We also have to be really careful with interviews too because people naturally judge the competence on others based on their own skills. So saying the woman was not as good as the other applicants who were men is not necessarily true. They may not have been as good fit for the role for sure but also there may have been biases there.
I hope that it changes too. I can't think of any other industry that has this sort of process!