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Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds (theverge.com)
According to The Wall Street Journal, female engineers who work at Facebook may face gender bias that prevents their code from being accepted at the same rate as male counterparts. "For Facebook, these revelations call into question the company's ongoing diversity efforts and its goal to build overarching online systems for people around the globe," reports The Verge. "The company's workforce is just 33 percent female, with women holding just 17 percent of technical roles and 27 percent of leadership positions." From the report: The findings come in two parts. An initial study by a former employee found that code written by female engineers was less likely to make it through Facebook's internal peer review system. This seemed to suggest that a female engineer's work was more heavily scrutinized. Facebook, alarmed by this data, commissioned a second study by Jay Parikh, its head of infrastructure, to investigate any potential issues. Parikh's findings suggested that the code rejections were due to engineering rank, not gender. However, Facebook employees now speculate that Parikh's findings mean female engineers might not be rising in the ranks as fast as male counterparts who joined the company at the same time, or perhaps that female engineers are leaving the company more often before being promoted. Either possibility could result in the 35 percent higher code rejection rate for female engineers. When contacted by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook called the initial study "incomplete and inaccurate" and based on "incomplete data," but did not shy away from confirming Parikh's separate findings.
Trying to balance the fact that their vagina doesn't/shouldn't matter while simultaneously trying to control the world with it.
I can say confidently that everyone is terrible.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
If anyone has any ideas on how to get girls interested in tech, I would love to hear about it.
Get Justin Bieber to teach a PHP class?
A: This code works, let's add it to the proj... ... It's... *pant* a vagina
B: WAIT WAIT WAIT, did you check the genitals?
A: Not yet
B: *disapproving look*
A: Okay, give me a minute *runs off*
[10 minutes later]
A: *pant pant*
B: *right click, delete*
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll