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

2 points by acoravos 8 years ago | 5 comments

smt88 8 years ago |

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?

angersock 8 years ago | |

> Aggressive screening by gender

That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.

mattbillenstein 8 years ago | | |

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