We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring
With such politically charged issues, it's always a problem of people wanting to believe something is possible (and mandatory to pursue) banging their heads against what is true and actually possible.If the percentage of female computer science graduates (as a strong proxy for the available candidate population) is 18% (Google for the facts and stats), how is every company to hit an idealistic goal of 50% representation?A while back, I did rough envelope calculations that if one of the major FAANG companies hit their diversity goal, there would be none left for any of the rest of them.   Look at these percentages and you can see unsentimentally that this must be true.Why do we place the blame and assign malice of intent to those who have little control over the constraints?   If we put actual performance metrics and pay on the line for achieving these physically unattainable goals, everyone would be fired.