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Something else that is never mentioned in these resume resources is the role diversity plays in hiring decisions at big companies like google. If you are a minority or female include something in your resume such as "member of women in tech club" or "latinx student union vise president". Having those kind of key words in your resume can be as significant as having a PHD in ML. There is significant pressure at those companies to hit diversity goals.

Not exaggerating this is what google recruiters I know have told me .

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It's really staggering how different my job search process is from my male friends, especially since I work in an ultra-male dominated niche. For them, it's like begging in the street for an offer. For me, it's like strolling through the supermarket and selecting which one I want. I have literally only once interviewed and not gotten an offer.

People get upset when I speak about this, because it's taboo to say women have it easier (in some aspects) in the tech world. But I try to be vocal about my experiences, in an effort to encourage more girls to go into tech. After all, what better incentive is there than fantastic pay that's easy to get?

You should definitely be open about it. Lots of girls in school have no exposure and think a field is hard to get into because they don’t know anyone there.

People forget how “far away” something looks to people not in the know.

They don't view preferential resume screening to be bias. Bias is only at the interview stage, the rest is the "pipeline", all they do is put more women in the "pipeline" by accepting resumes from women that wouldn't be accepted if they were men. They then have to pass the same interview process, so the entire process is "fair".

I'm not sure if that would hold in court though. And I bet many would argue that such treatment isn't really fair, that interview screening isn't a part of the recruitment pipeline and instead is a part of the assessment and therefore should be unbiased.

That's pretty sad though if that is more important than a PhD

honestly, its harder to recruit technical women than it is men with PhD's

Damn I need to start making my ethnicity working for me. But I suppose there's no point since I can't pass their leetcode style interviews :)

So true.

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