I don't think Perforce has a gender issue. I don't think OpenLogic on the whole has a gender issue. My team though, depending on how you count is 12 or 13 men (or 14 if you include the boss). Now, the boss' boss is female (I think Tim reports to Jill anyway, maybe he reports to Dan. In any case, the VP of Support is a female).
We have 1 Indian-American.
We have 1 gay man.
We have 2 black men.
We have a pretty diverse group as far as off-work interests. One guy lives in an RV! Only two sets of two people live in the same state, though we do skew east coast. As I see it, not having more of the US-based team on the west coast is a problem, I don't think it is near a big a problem as the gender issue.
I don't think we are doing super-horrible overall on the diversity aspect. The number is just too small to draw any huge conclusions, but the lack of any women is a huge problem if for no other reason than it is one that is going to get harder to address as the team grows.
We are currently hiring 5, so we have a huge opportunity to start to fix this. Most of the candidates I have seen have been men, though I'm not super-involved in the hiring process. Most of the technologists I know are white men (although I should reach out to an Asian friend and see if he's looking).
We are hiring 3 people in #Europe/ #UK, so in particular I would like to hear from Europeans on people to reach out to try to fix this. I don't know how much longer it will be until we start hiring, so I need to act fast if I am going to help fix this. Thanks in advance for any help!
#womenInTech #diversity
We have 1 Indian-American.
We have 1 gay man.
We have 2 black men.
We have a pretty diverse group as far as off-work interests. One guy lives in an RV! Only two sets of two people live in the same state, though we do skew east coast. As I see it, not having more of the US-based team on the west coast is a problem, I don't think it is near a big a problem as the gender issue.
I don't think we are doing super-horrible overall on the diversity aspect. The number is just too small to draw any huge conclusions, but the lack of any women is a huge problem if for no other reason than it is one that is going to get harder to address as the team grows.
We are currently hiring 5, so we have a huge opportunity to start to fix this. Most of the candidates I have seen have been men, though I'm not super-involved in the hiring process. Most of the technologists I know are white men (although I should reach out to an Asian friend and see if he's looking).
We are hiring 3 people in #Europe/ #UK, so in particular I would like to hear from Europeans on people to reach out to try to fix this. I don't know how much longer it will be until we start hiring, so I need to act fast if I am going to help fix this. Thanks in advance for any help!
#womenInTech #diversity
Seems like the company is trying 👍
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.
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.
looks like we are going to interview one woman, but she doesn't appear to be in a place where we can hire. I'm unsure why we are even bothering with an interview. Just so we can say we interviewed a woman? These might just be the interviews in which I am going to participate though, as I'm not a manager or recruiter.
seems incredibly likely we are going to add 8 dudes. Originally, I had said we were hiring 5, but I didn't realize that we were hiring multiple Big Data people.
We ended up not interviewing that one woman, but as I noted last time, that probably makes sense. Oh well, at least we are hiring.
We ended up not interviewing that one woman, but as I noted last time, that probably makes sense. Oh well, at least we are hiring.