Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female

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I was disappointed by the lack of substance here. It's just a PR puff piece.

I'd be much more interested in learning what Gusto changed (if anything) and how it changed their applicant pool.

Were 50% of the applicants female? Was there a significant quality difference between genders or across time?

How did you accomplish this? Aggressive screening by gender at each phase of the hiring pipeline or just at the resume phase?

> Aggressive screening by gender

That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.

Assuming the pool is 80-90% male to start, to get to 50% I think one would have to be "aggressive" -- don't you?

I think GP meant that "aggressive screening by gender" is another way of saying "discrimination". In the US, I think that's technically true -- you can end up with a very different pool of hires than applicants, but you're vulnerable to lawsuits forcing you to defend the merit of the ones who were hired.

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