[bl4ckm0r3]

Wasn't specifically talking about facebook, more of a generic situation here. You can't attract good female talents, if you don't have female devs in your company. Also in the market there are a lot of junior candidates (and a lot of them coming from a different background and just trying to land a job that will allow them to live in san francisco). It is easy to blame sexism (riding the wave now) when it may just be that some code isn't good... At least according to this article the bias has more to do with the experience of some coder.

https://news.fastcompany.com/at-facebook-women-coders-are-ju...

[nojvek]

This kinds really messes with candidates brains in a way. A descent coder I know gets a billion interview requests in linkedin but after completing a number of loops she got all rejects. She now firmly believes she doesn't get accepted coz she's not a male.

There's only so many rejects you can get before you say "fuck it! I'm gonna choose another career path, this was a waste of time, money and energy"