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Creating a throwaway since I've taken part of this internal discussion at Facebook. Once normalized for skill level (i.e. junior engineer, engineer, senior engineer) the level of rejection between genders is the same.

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Does this mean employees eventually shown more details? The WSJ article I read[1] cast both analyses as flawed in that the employee's study may not have accounted for an engineer’s previous experience before joining FB, while the official one apparently failed to offer enough data to conclusively rule out gender bias and employees' request for more detailed data was denied.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-female-engineers-clai...

I'd be happier with your statement if you replaced "skill level" with "seniority", because the two aren't really equivalent.

They aren't for an individual, they are for a data set.

Meaning that more senior people have a higher skill in the aggregate, and given the context they're talking about at least dozens of data points. One exception doesn't discount the trend.

The study that showed the bias accounted for seniority at Facebook (though not previous experience). That seems more valid overall than "rank" which, if these biases do exist, one would expect to also be influenced by them.

it's sad that you have to create a throwaway to have a genuine opinion here.

I think that's not related to "here". It's more likely that that is because they've "taken part of this internal discussion at Facebook".

He works at Facebook and is stating it as a fact.

He's a random, anonymous person who says he works at Facebook. Unless you're vouching for him?

Does this mean Fb hired more junior women ? it would be ironic if trying to get more girls into a company would backfire in the medias now..

it's a shame, but to get more women into STEM they have to start somewhere.

"Girls"? Jeez... I wonder where the problem lies...

And can you share insights into what percentage of female engineers there see promotion (as compared to males), and if it's at the same velocity? Because, you know... spin.

Oh, don't worry about that now. They've already moved to have the article removed from HN. Conversation over! ;)

Why is your username green?

Because new accounts are green and his account is a throwaway account which he just created for the purpose of making this single comment.