Etsy's Gambit to Hire More Female Engineers

http://allthingsd.com/20120612/inside-etsys-gambit-to-hire-more-female-engineers/

7 3 14 years ago

I used to work for Marc and I think he's an excellent recruiter. You could read this article as a tactical way to increase diversity or just as a tactical way to put yourself on candidates radar. Etsy has been making incredible hires across the board since he joined.

checoivan• 14 years ago

Kudos to them for promoting women in engineering. What I don't understand why calling it a gambit?

It's more of a good thing and an achievement rather than a gambit.

jere• 14 years ago

The "gambit" is offering $70,000 worth of grants with the ultimate goal being, hopefully, to recruit the graduates.

If I'm understanding correctly, the people that would go to Hacker School aren't necessarily ready for a job at Etsy (the goal being "turn people with a passion for programming into professional engineers").

So it could fail in several ways and the money would go to waste (at least from the perspective of hiring). Now, I would imagine $70,000 isn't much to a company like Etsy, but "gambit" is still an appropriate way to put it.

Etsy's Gambit to Hire More Female Engineers

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