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Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?

Ideally this topic won't devolve into an off-topic war.

I'm curious how other companies approach diversity.

Our company has been tracking diversity and reports on "# of non-male identifying employees" and "# of non-white employees".

A coworker just posted about a tool to remove biases from job postings (textio.com), which looks awesome.

The response from HR was "we're using that and our job postings are strongly feminine-leaning", which matches towards their stated goals.

I've access to a couple of the hiring pipelines, and from speaking with others, our current strategy is:

• Headhunt for employees matching the statistics we're looking to grow • Bias our external communication towards those in align with the statistics we're looking to grow • Bias our selection process towards those in align with the statistics we're looking to grow

Again, this isn't my job (I do mostly sysadmin-like stuff) and I don't have enough information to give opinions on any of this, but I'm curious if other companies have similar strategies or methods they follow in search of similar goals.

25 points divrsthrowaway 6 years ago 45 comments

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