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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.
Do you have any evidence to support this, or are you just making things up? This never gets resolved because people like you seem unwilling to accept the possibility that there really is gender bias. There's plenty of evidence of sexual harassment in tech workplaces and women facing genuinely hostile environments. It stands to reason that only the most egregious cases draw publicity and that many women probably don't come forward for fear of damaging their careers. It's likely, therefore, that there are many slights against women in such workplaces, and this may, indeed, be partially the result of those. Can you even accept the possibility that gender bias could even partially be responsible for what is being observed?
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It's the opposite. The average and mediocre female engineers drop out so you end up with only the cream of the crop. Male engineers are more likely to stick with it even if they suck, so on average are much less talented. They tend to boast more at interviews too so it's harder to weed out the weak ones.
See how this works?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Let's show how enlightened we men are by believing everything she says and hanging on her every word!
Let's take the red pill and assume every word coming from their mouths is a lie.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC