>Your phrasing "chose to have kids" betrays some of your underlying beliefs
I did suspect that underlying your opinion was a desire to discriminate in favor of parents/against non parents.
This would fit in with the double standard I highlighted in my first comment.
This was also because you mentioned "parents" in the context of diversity (which is weirdly unique). I threw that phrase out there to see if it triggered you.
>To your second point, I can't think of a single thing I would let be a proxy for technical skill in an interview process -- certainly not some commits to open source
I've not worked with a huge number of developers who have made > 3 significant pull requests to a serious OSS project but every single one has been stellar.
I've worked with a lot of developers who can do the cracking the coding interview dance who sucked and even more who interview well in other ways.
I did suspect that underlying your opinion was a desire to discriminate in favor of parents/against non parents.
This would fit in with the double standard I highlighted in my first comment.
This was also because you mentioned "parents" in the context of diversity (which is weirdly unique). I threw that phrase out there to see if it triggered you.
>To your second point, I can't think of a single thing I would let be a proxy for technical skill in an interview process -- certainly not some commits to open source
I've not worked with a huge number of developers who have made > 3 significant pull requests to a serious OSS project but every single one has been stellar.
I've worked with a lot of developers who can do the cracking the coding interview dance who sucked and even more who interview well in other ways.