In a few years, I want Jopwell to not exist anymore. Not that I'm rooting for them to fail, but rather that I hope every job site is equally diverse. But for now, we need to be intentional about this.
Most companies hire from within their networks. So, this problem will solve itself eventually, as minorities start bringing their networks of potential hires to companies and the companies start naturally hiring from that new pool. However, it's a chicken-and-egg problem that needs a kick start.
Where have you worked where it was easier to get hired as a white man? Everyone in tech is already tripping over themselves trying to hire women and minorities.
This 'company' is blatantly discriminatory and unnecessary and taints the success of their hires by making it appear they took a shortcut into their positions via their race/sex .
Anecdotally, judging from my friends in both categories, it's easier to get hired and promoted (implicit disclaimer: in the US tech scene) as a competent white man than as an equally-competent woman or racial/ethnic minority, if you are job-hunting.
One of the side effects of entrenched racism and sexism is that competent women and minorities tend to be underemployed more than competent white men, and so as the biases are being broken down, you'll see way more women and minorities (compared to the ratios in the general population) being hired or promoted to the right place compared to white men. Out of people who are competent to be senior developers, way more white men than women or minorities already have a good job fit, and in turn, way fewer of them are on the job market or easily poachable.
So the market, as a whole, can be biased in favor of hiring and promoting women and minorities without it being any easier for the individual developer who happens to be a woman or minority.
The market as a whole is getting purpotedly pushed to hire minorities. Apparently. Is it working(in the tech sector)? Or, are they just making the white guys resentful and so making it harder in the long run?
https://www.reddit.com/comments/3du1qm/
In a few years, I want Jopwell to not exist anymore. Not that I'm rooting for them to fail, but rather that I hope every job site is equally diverse. But for now, we need to be intentional about this.
Most companies hire from within their networks. So, this problem will solve itself eventually, as minorities start bringing their networks of potential hires to companies and the companies start naturally hiring from that new pool. However, it's a chicken-and-egg problem that needs a kick start.