Doug Whitfield

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I'm not sure that's accurate. I'm not sure anyone has even acknowledged it as an issue other than me. I suspect this is because the company as a whole doesn't have this issue. I do think having every single person in the interviews be male is likely to turn off some women. I don't know if Jill (VP of Support) will get involved in interviews. If we were doing office interviews, I am sure she would. Maybe she still will. Maybe that will be enough. I'm skeptical, though I suppose time will tell.


That said, management was really focused on finding people in Estonia for a while, which was really going to make finding anyone at all very difficult. They have sense realized that while Estonia does have good digital infrastructure, they simply lack the talent pool needed. We know there are talented people there. Perforce has offices there. The population just isn't large enough to have that many people *looking for jobs*. In any case, if all of a sudden we are a team of 19 guys, it is going to make it harder to recruit women in the future, and cutting out half the talent pool is not a wise decision.