Gusto: Our Latest Batch of Software Engineers Is 50% Female (opens in new tab)

(engineering.gusto.com)

2 pointsacoravos8y ago5 comments

5 comments

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?

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smt888y ago