Jack Dorsey’s Lunchtime Tweet Reveals Square’s Total Lack of Female Interns
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He even said "we made offers to female candidates & they chose other opportunities for various reasons. We continue to make offers". But that wasn't even good enough. He was asked if they dug deeper into reasons. Wait.. what? So now if you make an offer to candidates and some turn it down, you have to dig deeper into why they turned it down? Rubbish. Clearly they found interns that accepted the offers so I don't see why they would have to spend that much time trying to figure out why some did not. You do that if you are having a hard time finding people to accept... but it doesn't appear to be an issue here.
Gee, maybe if more women went into engineering instead of going into design, community management, or editing, Square could find some female interns.
There are 13 interns in the photo. Given the number of women who go into software engineering, finding a group of 13 being all male is not at all out of line.
Not to mention that in nearly 3 decades of software engineering, I can't think of any team of software engineers that size that I worked in that didn't have at least one woman in it.