Duolingo just tweeted about how we achieved a 50% female ratio of new engineering college graduate hires. We're very proud of this. I'm disappointed that the top comments were all from men angrily arguing discrimination, and that we should hire the best people instead. Idiots.
The women we hired had either perfect or near perfect GPAs from the best universities in the world, with stellar recommendations, and aced our very thorough interview process. We've gotten over 90K applicants for jobs throughout time, and we've made offers to under 250.
We achieved a 50% ratio not by lowering our standards or by discriminating against men. We did it by only actively recruiting from colleges with higher female ratios in their computer science programs. These were also not shitty colleges -- CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.
If other companies do this, colleges will be incentivized to have more diverse graduating classes.
I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still have to defend gender equality.
I'm amazed that it's 2018 and I still have to defend gender equality.
