Posted on 05/02/2017 10:47:48 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Last year, a longtime engineer at Facebook Inc. gathered data that revealed a controversial finding: Code written by women was rejected much more frequently than code written by their male colleagues, according to people familiar with the matter and screenshots of internal discussions viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
For many female engineers at Facebook, the finding confirmed long-held suspicions that their coding faced more scrutiny than men’s.
The results touched off a debate within Facebook over alleged gender bias among some of its most-valued employees: the engineers who build the features used by nearly two billion people every month. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was asked about the findings during a weekly town hall meeting.
The outcry prompted senior Facebook officials to conduct their own review of the engineer’s study. In an internal post published a month later, Jay Parikh, Facebook’s head of infrastructure, attributed any gap in rejection rates to an engineer’s rank, not gender. Many employees interpreted this new analysis as a sign that female engineers weren’t rising at the same rate as men who joined the company around the same time.
In a statement to the Journal, a Facebook spokeswoman described the initial analysis as “incomplete and inaccurate—performed by a former Facebook engineer with an incomplete data set.” The spokeswoman confirmed Mr. Parikh’s analysis, which was based on confidential data unavailable to most employees. The spokeswoman added that there aren’t enough women at senior engineering levels at Facebook and across the technology industry.
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Employees responded to Mr. Parikh’s post by asking Facebook to share more detailed data, such as the percentage of female engineers at every level. The new analysis, they said, suggested that women were being held at levels where their code is rejected more often.
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If women write code with more bugs, that just means compilers are biased against women.
My gosh we have created a generation of whiners.
No, it just means their smartypants liberal boss is a misogynist (whatever that is)
And here is another shocking news flash: There are more men in prison than women because the system is biased against men. This madness MUST be stopped.
As with law schools, where minorities are admitted to higher level schools based on ethnicity only to face a harder time getting a degree or passing the bar if they finish at all.
They would do better at mid-tier law school, and many of the women at top tech firms would do better at mid-tier IT shops.
Have they corrected for years of experience? If the women haven’t been programming as long I would expect more errors.
It might mean that lousy programmers are being hired in order to satisfy affirmative action goals.
As a woman, I would like to say that....maybe they just aren’t that good. Just because your daddy told you that you are the smartest little girl in the whole world does not make it true.
“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
- H.L. Mencken
Won't compile because you're a girl, got it.
maths
Attractive women should be in sales and the rest looking for other lines of work. I hear they can do bookkeeping.
Really. Computers are non biased. Did your code crash, did it run in the specified time.
My code worked, but my husband was better than me. He knew how to.optimize code to make it run fast!
We worked together for many years. Most of the time on different projects, but I’d have him look over the code if I noticed a problem.
Usually, we were fixing other people’s code.
I was very good at finding other people’s bugs, and he was great at fixing them.
As with law schools, where minorities are admitted to higher level schools based on ethnicity only to face a harder time getting a degree or passing the bar if they finish at all.
They would do better at mid-tier law school, and many of the women at top tech firms would do better at mid-tier IT shops.
We have a winner!
So is the allegation that Facebook promotes men who write bad code, but not women?
I once pinch hit to coach a code development team of mixed genders. The gal didn’t do any worse than the guys.
Overly eager AA, however, can poison the pool by bringing in people who are not ready yet.
Really. Computers are non biased. Did your code crash, did it run in the specified time.
My code worked, but my husband was better than me. He knew how to.optimize code to make it run fast!
We worked together for many years. Most of the time on different projects, but I’d have him look over the code if I noticed a problem.
Usually, we were fixing other people’s code.
I was very good at finding other people’s bugs, and he was great at fixing them.
Is Code Male and Female ?
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